Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education

September 2013 5-a-day

Every sheet in September 2013

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 2013State one long-term adaptation of the skeletal system to weight-bearing exercise.
  2. 2nd September 2013Explain why a sprinter still needs some fat in their diet, even though fat is used mainly during low-intensity exercise.
  3. 3rd September 2013Explain why a performer should not wait until they feel thirsty before drinking fluid during exercise.
  4. 4th September 2013Define agonist.
  5. 5th September 2013Explain how compression helps a soft-tissue injury.
  6. 6th September 2013State one possible benefit of cooling down for a performer's recovery.
  7. 7th September 2013Give one physical reason why participation in contact sport often falls as people get older.
  8. 8th September 2013State one drawback of using video technology to support officiating decisions.
  9. 9th September 2013A gymnast is told 'well done, that landing was perfectly balanced.' Classify this feedback by source and by tone.
  10. 10th September 2013Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
  11. 11th September 2013A performer has a stroke volume of 80 ml and a heart rate of 150 beats per minute. Calculate their cardiac output in ml/min.
  12. 12th September 2013State one way blood helps to regulate body temperature during exercise.
  13. 13th September 2013What is a micronutrient?
  14. 14th September 2013Name the three planes of movement used in movement analysis.
  15. 15th September 2013Which 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?
  16. 16th September 2013Give a sporting example where reaction time is essential, and explain why.
  17. 17th September 2013What type of tissue is damaged in a strain?
  18. 18th September 2013Define 'gamesmanship'.
  19. 19th September 2013Give one argument against the use of PEDs that is not directly about health.
  20. 20th September 2013According to the inverted-U theory, what happens to performance once arousal rises past the optimal point?
  21. 21st September 2013Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
  22. 22nd September 2013Is expiration at rest an active or a passive process?
  23. 23rd September 2013Classify a marathon as aerobic or anaerobic exercise.
  24. 24th September 2013Why might a very active athlete need a higher daily energy intake than an inactive person of the same body size?
  25. 25th September 2013State the order of fulcrum, load and effort in a first-class lever.
  26. 26th September 2013Define muscular endurance.
  27. 27th September 2013What does the F in FITT stand for?
  28. 28th September 2013State one limitation of the sit and reach test's validity for a games player.
  29. 29th September 2013Why is the relationship between sport, sponsorship and the media described as a 'triangle' rather than a straight line?
  30. 30th September 2013A footballer takes a penalty kick with no goalkeeper movement allowed until the ball is struck. State whether this is basic or complex, and justify your answer.