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.

  1. 1st April 2001State one long-term adaptation of the respiratory system to endurance training.
  2. 2nd April 2001Give one example of a complex carbohydrate food source.
  3. 3rd April 2001Explain why a performer should not wait until they feel thirsty before drinking fluid during exercise.
  4. 4th April 2001Define agonist.
  5. 5th April 2001Why should an injured limb be elevated above the level of the heart?
  6. 6th April 2001Explain why a cool-down begins with light continuous exercise rather than going straight into stretching.
  7. 7th April 2001Give one physical reason why participation in contact sport often falls as people get older.
  8. 8th April 2001State one drawback of using video technology to support officiating decisions.
  9. 9th April 2001A gymnast is told 'well done, that landing was perfectly balanced.' Classify this feedback by source and by tone.
  10. 10th April 2001Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
  11. 11th April 2001State the formula for cardiac output.
  12. 12th April 2001Give one reason blood volume or red blood cell count might increase after a period of altitude training.
  13. 13th April 2001What is a micronutrient?
  14. 14th April 2001Name the three planes of movement used in movement analysis.
  15. 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?
  16. 16th April 2001State the equipment needed for the Illinois agility run.
  17. 17th April 2001Explain why distance runners are more at risk of stress fractures than sprinters.
  18. 18th April 2001Define 'gamesmanship'.
  19. 19th April 2001Give one argument against the use of PEDs that is not directly about health.
  20. 20th April 2001According to the inverted-U theory, what happens to performance once arousal rises past the optimal point?
  21. 21st April 2001Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
  22. 22nd April 2001State the gas that moves out of the blood and into the alveoli to be exhaled.
  23. 23rd April 2001State one physical sign that a performer is exercising anaerobically.
  24. 24th April 2001Why might a very active athlete need a higher daily energy intake than an inactive person of the same body size?
  25. 25th April 2001State the order of fulcrum, load and effort in a first-class lever.
  26. 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.
  27. 27th April 2001Explain why a swimming coach would apply the principle of specificity when designing a training programme for a 200m breaststroke swimmer.
  28. 28th April 2001Explain why motivation can affect the reliability of the multi-stage fitness test.
  29. 29th April 2001Why is the relationship between sport, sponsorship and the media described as a 'triangle' rather than a straight line?
  30. 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.