Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
July 2003 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2003Name the component of blood responsible for clotting.
- 2nd July 2003Explain why a lack of iron could reduce a performer's aerobic performance.
- 3rd July 2003Name the three components of every lever system.
- 4th July 2003During the upward phase of a vertical jump, the knee extends. Name the agonist muscle producing this action.
- 5th July 2003Explain why balance is important for a gymnast performing a handstand.
- 6th July 2003Give the difference between a traumatic fracture and a stress fracture.
- 7th July 2003What is meant by 'hooliganism' in a sporting context?
- 8th July 2003Explain how EPO (erythropoietin) improves endurance performance.
- 9th July 2003Define arousal in a sporting context.
- 10th July 2003Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 11th July 2003Name the site where gaseous exchange takes place in the lungs.
- 12th July 2003Classify a 100m sprint as aerobic or anaerobic exercise.
- 13th July 2003A cyclist expends 2,800 kilocalories in a day and eats food providing 3,100 kilocalories. Is this a surplus or a deficit, and by how much?
- 14th July 2003Give a named body example of a first-class lever.
- 15th July 2003Give one sport in which cardiovascular endurance is especially important, and explain why.
- 16th July 2003A performer has a maximum heart rate of 190 bpm. Calculate the upper boundary of their aerobic training zone (80% of maximum heart rate).
- 17th July 2003What is normative data used for?
- 18th July 2003Define 'commercialisation' in the context of sport.
- 19th July 2003Define a closed skill.
- 20th July 2003A fly-half makes a strong, fair, full-blooded tackle that is completely within the rules and has no intent to injure. Is this aggression or assertion?
- 21st July 2003Name the bone that protects the brain.
- 22nd July 2003State the fuel used by the ATP-PC system.
- 23rd July 2003Which of the three wellbeing dimensions - physical, emotional or social - is most directly improved by joining a new sports club? Justify your choice.
- 24th July 2003What is dietary manipulation?
- 25th July 2003Explain why a star jump occurs in the frontal plane.
- 26th July 2003Give one reason a PEP should include an appropriate warm-up in every session.
- 27th July 2003Which training method uses a series of different exercise stations?
- 28th July 2003State one effect of playing sport in very hot weather.
- 29th July 2003Give one reason women's sport has historically received less media coverage than men's sport in the UK.
- 30th July 2003Give one example of a task-irrelevant cue that could distract a performer during a match.
- 31st July 2003Give one example of a sport that would typically suit an extrovert's preference for stimulation and social contact.