Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
March 2011 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2011Explain why muscles need to work in agonist-antagonist pairs rather than alone.
- 2nd March 2011What does each letter of RICE stand for?
- 3rd March 2011Name the three phases of a warm-up in order.
- 4th March 2011Name one type of low-impact activity often used to encourage older adults to stay active.
- 5th March 2011Name one type of official found in football and one found in cricket.
- 6th March 2011State which stage of the information processing model uses the effector system to carry out the chosen action.
- 7th March 2011Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
- 8th March 2011Name the structure that separates the left and right sides of the heart.
- 9th March 2011Which blood cells contain haemoglobin and carry oxygen around the body?
- 10th March 2011Name one vitamin and state one of its functions.
- 11th March 2011Which axis is paired with the transverse plane?
- 12th March 2011During the upward phase of a vertical jump, the ankle plantarflexes. Name the agonist muscle producing this action.
- 13th March 2011Name the test used to measure power.
- 14th March 2011A tennis player pulls up sharply while sprinting for a wide shot, feeling a sudden sharp pain in the back of their thigh. Which injury is most likely, and what tissue is damaged?
- 15th March 2011State one strategy used by football clubs or authorities to reduce hooliganism.
- 16th March 2011Give one reason a performer might choose to use a banned PED despite the risks.
- 17th March 2011Give one strategy a coach could use to raise a player's arousal before a match if they seem flat and under-motivated.
- 18th March 2011Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 19th March 2011State the direction oxygen moves during gaseous exchange at the alveoli.
- 20th March 2011Name one team sport in which players use both aerobic and anaerobic exercise during a single match.
- 21st March 2011Explain why a boxer trying to make a specific weight category might deliberately create a short-term energy deficit.
- 22nd March 2011Give a named body example of a second-class lever.
- 23rd March 2011Name the test used to measure flexibility.
- 24th March 2011Why might a training programme that never changes exercises or intensity risk breaking two principles of training at once?
- 25th March 2011Give one reason a coach might carry out fitness testing at the start of a season.
- 26th March 2011Explain one positive effect of commercialisation on a sport itself.
- 27th March 2011Why can a skill's position on the open-closed continuum change between different performances of the same skill?
- 28th March 2011According to social learning theory, what must happen for an observed aggressive behaviour to be repeated?
- 29th March 2011Identify the agonist and antagonist muscle pair that works at the knee joint.
- 30th March 2011State roughly how long the ATP-PC system can supply energy for before it is depleted.
- 31st March 2011Give one physical benefit of taking part in physical activity.