Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
August 2006 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2006Explain how compression helps a soft-tissue injury.
- 2nd August 2006State one possible benefit of cooling down for a performer's recovery.
- 3rd August 2006Explain why cost can be a barrier to participation for people in a lower socio-economic group.
- 4th August 2006Explain what is meant by 'fair play' beyond simply following the written rules.
- 5th August 2006Explain the difference between knowledge of results and knowledge of performance.
- 6th August 2006Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
- 7th August 2006A performer has a stroke volume of 80 ml and a heart rate of 150 beats per minute. Calculate their cardiac output in ml/min.
- 8th August 2006State one way blood helps to regulate body temperature during exercise.
- 9th August 2006Explain why a lack of iron could reduce a performer's aerobic performance.
- 10th August 2006Name the three components of every lever system.
- 11th August 2006During the upward phase of a vertical jump, the knee extends. Name the agonist muscle producing this action.
- 12th August 2006Give a sporting example where reaction time is essential, and explain why.
- 13th August 2006What type of tissue is damaged in a strain?
- 14th August 2006What is meant by 'hooliganism' in a sporting context?
- 15th August 2006Explain how EPO (erythropoietin) improves endurance performance.
- 16th August 2006According to the inverted-U theory, what happens to performance once arousal rises past the optimal point?
- 17th August 2006Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 18th August 2006Is expiration at rest an active or a passive process?
- 19th August 2006Classify a marathon as aerobic or anaerobic exercise.
- 20th August 2006A 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?
- 21st August 2006Give a named body example of a first-class lever.
- 22nd August 2006Define muscular endurance.
- 23rd August 2006What does the F in FITT stand for?
- 24th August 2006State one limitation of the sit and reach test's validity for a games player.
- 25th August 2006Define 'commercialisation' in the context of sport.
- 26th August 2006A 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.
- 27th August 2006Define assertive behaviour in sport.
- 28th August 2006State the muscle mainly responsible for flexion at the hip.
- 29th August 2006Write the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 30th August 2006Define fitness.
- 31st August 2006What is dietary manipulation?