Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education

September 2007 5-a-day

Every sheet in September 2007

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st September 2007Name one team sport in which players use both aerobic and anaerobic exercise during a single match.
  2. 2nd September 2007A 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?
  3. 3rd September 2007Give a named body example of a first-class lever.
  4. 4th September 2007Name the test used to measure flexibility.
  5. 5th September 2007Why might a training programme that never changes exercises or intensity risk breaking two principles of training at once?
  6. 6th September 2007Give one reason a coach might carry out fitness testing at the start of a season.
  7. 7th September 2007Define 'commercialisation' in the context of sport.
  8. 8th September 2007Why can a skill's position on the open-closed continuum change between different performances of the same skill?
  9. 9th September 2007According to social learning theory, what must happen for an observed aggressive behaviour to be repeated?
  10. 10th September 2007Identify the agonist and antagonist muscle pair that works at the knee joint.
  11. 11th September 2007State roughly how long the ATP-PC system can supply energy for before it is depleted.
  12. 12th September 2007Give one physical benefit of taking part in physical activity.
  13. 13th September 2007What is dietary manipulation?
  14. 14th September 2007Explain why a star jump occurs in the frontal plane.
  15. 15th September 2007A PEP starts with 2 training sessions a week. If progressive overload is applied by adding 1 extra session every 4 weeks, how many sessions per week will the performer be doing by week 9?
  16. 16th September 2007State the main energy system developed by continuous training.
  17. 17th September 2007Give one piece of protective equipment used in hockey, and state what injury it helps prevent.
  18. 18th September 2007Give three examples of media channels through which sport is broadcast or reported.
  19. 19th September 2007Give one example of a task-irrelevant cue that could distract a performer during a match.
  20. 20th September 2007Give one example of a sport that would typically suit an extrovert's preference for stimulation and social contact.
  21. 21st September 2007Name the two components of EPOC.
  22. 22nd September 2007Why does synovial fluid become thinner (less viscous) during a warm-up?
  23. 23rd September 2007What is osteoporosis?
  24. 24th September 2007Describe the physical characteristics of an endomorph.
  25. 25th September 2007Define abduction.
  26. 26th September 2007A performer's squat 1RM is 90kg. Their coach wants them training for maximal strength, at 85% of 1RM. Calculate the training weight, to the nearest kg.
  27. 27th September 2007Give one type of training that is emphasised during the pre-season, and explain why.
  28. 28th September 2007True or false: participation gaps between men and women in the UK have stayed exactly the same for the last twenty years. Justify your answer.
  29. 29th September 2007Give one example of the level at which sponsorship can operate below elite sport.
  30. 30th September 2007Explain why a vague goal such as 'try harder in matches' is not SMART.