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.

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