Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
July 2008 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2008Explain why a performer should not wait until they feel thirsty before drinking fluid during exercise.
- 2nd July 2008Define agonist.
- 3rd July 2008Explain why Rest is applied as the first stage of RICE.
- 4th July 2008Give one reason why the skill rehearsal phase of a warm-up should be sport-specific.
- 5th July 2008Give one physical reason why participation in contact sport often falls as people get older.
- 6th July 2008State one drawback of using video technology to support officiating decisions.
- 7th July 2008A gymnast is told 'well done, that landing was perfectly balanced.' Classify this feedback by source and by tone.
- 8th July 2008Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
- 9th July 2008Name the four chambers of the heart.
- 10th July 2008State one waste product removed from the muscles by the blood during exercise.
- 11th July 2008What is a micronutrient?
- 12th July 2008Name the three planes of movement used in movement analysis.
- 13th July 2008Which 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?
- 14th July 2008Which skill-related component does the alternate hand wall-toss test measure?
- 15th July 2008Name the piece of cartilage in the knee that is commonly torn by a sudden twisting movement.
- 16th July 2008Define 'gamesmanship'.
- 17th July 2008Give one argument against the use of PEDs that is not directly about health.
- 18th July 2008Give one strategy a coach could use to raise a player's arousal before a match if they seem flat and under-motivated.
- 19th July 2008Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 20th July 2008State which extra muscles are used during forced (exercise) expiration, in addition to relaxation of the external intercostals.
- 21st July 2008State the by-product produced during anaerobic exercise that is not produced during aerobic exercise.
- 22nd July 2008Why might a very active athlete need a higher daily energy intake than an inactive person of the same body size?
- 23rd July 2008State the order of fulcrum, load and effort in a first-class lever.
- 24th July 2008What does body composition measure?
- 25th July 2008A 25-year-old performer trains at a heart rate of 175 bpm. Calculate their maximum heart rate and state whether they are training in the aerobic or anaerobic zone.
- 26th July 2008Define validity in the context of fitness testing.
- 27th July 2008Why is the relationship between sport, sponsorship and the media described as a 'triangle' rather than a straight line?
- 28th July 2008Why can a skill's position on the open-closed continuum change between different performances of the same skill?
- 29th July 2008According to social learning theory, what must happen for an observed aggressive behaviour to be repeated?
- 30th July 2008State two functions of the skeletal system other than movement.
- 31st July 2008Which energy system produces lactic acid as its by-product?