Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
November 2008 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2008Define 'sportsmanship'.
- 2nd November 2008Name the category of drug used to mask pain, allowing a performer to compete or train through an injury.
- 3rd November 2008Define arousal in a sporting context.
- 4th November 2008Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 5th November 2008State the direction oxygen moves during gaseous exchange at the alveoli.
- 6th November 2008Name one team sport in which players use both aerobic and anaerobic exercise during a single match.
- 7th November 2008What happens to a person's body weight if energy intake regularly exceeds energy expenditure?
- 8th November 2008Explain one advantage of a lever system with a mechanical advantage above 1.
- 9th November 2008Name the test used to measure flexibility.
- 10th November 2008Why might a training programme that never changes exercises or intensity risk breaking two principles of training at once?
- 11th November 2008Give one reason a coach might carry out fitness testing at the start of a season.
- 12th November 2008Explain why sponsors are attracted to sports with high media coverage.
- 13th November 2008Define a closed skill.
- 14th November 2008A 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?
- 15th November 2008Identify the agonist and antagonist muscle pair that works at the knee joint.
- 16th November 2008State roughly how long the ATP-PC system can supply energy for before it is depleted.
- 17th November 2008Give one physical benefit of taking part in physical activity.
- 18th November 2008For what type of event is carbohydrate loading most appropriate?
- 19th November 2008Which plane divides the body into left and right halves?
- 20th November 2008A 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?
- 21st November 2008State the main energy system developed by continuous training.
- 22nd November 2008Give one piece of protective equipment used in hockey, and state what injury it helps prevent.
- 23rd November 2008Give one reason women's sport has historically received less media coverage than men's sport in the UK.
- 24th November 2008Give one example of a task-irrelevant cue that could distract a performer during a match.
- 25th November 2008Give one example of a sport that would typically suit an extrovert's preference for stimulation and social contact.
- 26th November 2008Name the two components of EPOC.
- 27th November 2008Why does synovial fluid become thinner (less viscous) during a warm-up?
- 28th November 2008Explain why a sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of obesity.
- 29th November 2008Give one sport that an endomorph body type typically suits, and one reason why.
- 30th November 2008Define adduction.