Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
April 2001 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2001State one long-term adaptation of the respiratory system to endurance training.
- 2nd April 2001Give one example of a complex carbohydrate food source.
- 3rd April 2001Explain why a performer should not wait until they feel thirsty before drinking fluid during exercise.
- 4th April 2001Define agonist.
- 5th April 2001Why should an injured limb be elevated above the level of the heart?
- 6th April 2001Explain why a cool-down begins with light continuous exercise rather than going straight into stretching.
- 7th April 2001Give one physical reason why participation in contact sport often falls as people get older.
- 8th April 2001State one drawback of using video technology to support officiating decisions.
- 9th April 2001A gymnast is told 'well done, that landing was perfectly balanced.' Classify this feedback by source and by tone.
- 10th April 2001Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
- 11th April 2001State the formula for cardiac output.
- 12th April 2001Give one reason blood volume or red blood cell count might increase after a period of altitude training.
- 13th April 2001What is a micronutrient?
- 14th April 2001Name the three planes of movement used in movement analysis.
- 15th April 2001Which model, the lever model or the planes and axes model, is more suited to analysing a rotational movement such as a hip turn in a golf swing, and why?
- 16th April 2001State the equipment needed for the Illinois agility run.
- 17th April 2001Explain why distance runners are more at risk of stress fractures than sprinters.
- 18th April 2001Define 'gamesmanship'.
- 19th April 2001Give one argument against the use of PEDs that is not directly about health.
- 20th April 2001According to the inverted-U theory, what happens to performance once arousal rises past the optimal point?
- 21st April 2001Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 22nd April 2001State the gas that moves out of the blood and into the alveoli to be exhaled.
- 23rd April 2001State one physical sign that a performer is exercising anaerobically.
- 24th April 2001Why might a very active athlete need a higher daily energy intake than an inactive person of the same body size?
- 25th April 2001State the order of fulcrum, load and effort in a first-class lever.
- 26th April 2001A performer's Cooper run distance is 2680 metres. Using VO2 max = (distance - 504.9) / 44.73, calculate their estimated VO2 max to one decimal place.
- 27th April 2001Explain why a swimming coach would apply the principle of specificity when designing a training programme for a 200m breaststroke swimmer.
- 28th April 2001Explain why motivation can affect the reliability of the multi-stage fitness test.
- 29th April 2001Why is the relationship between sport, sponsorship and the media described as a 'triangle' rather than a straight line?
- 30th April 2001A footballer takes a penalty kick with no goalkeeper movement allowed until the ball is struck. State whether this is basic or complex, and justify your answer.