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.
- 1st September 2013State one long-term adaptation of the skeletal system to weight-bearing exercise.
- 2nd September 2013Explain why a sprinter still needs some fat in their diet, even though fat is used mainly during low-intensity exercise.
- 3rd September 2013Explain why a performer should not wait until they feel thirsty before drinking fluid during exercise.
- 4th September 2013Define agonist.
- 5th September 2013Explain how compression helps a soft-tissue injury.
- 6th September 2013State one possible benefit of cooling down for a performer's recovery.
- 7th September 2013Give one physical reason why participation in contact sport often falls as people get older.
- 8th September 2013State one drawback of using video technology to support officiating decisions.
- 9th September 2013A gymnast is told 'well done, that landing was perfectly balanced.' Classify this feedback by source and by tone.
- 10th September 2013Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
- 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.
- 12th September 2013State one way blood helps to regulate body temperature during exercise.
- 13th September 2013What is a micronutrient?
- 14th September 2013Name the three planes of movement used in movement analysis.
- 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?
- 16th September 2013Give a sporting example where reaction time is essential, and explain why.
- 17th September 2013What type of tissue is damaged in a strain?
- 18th September 2013Define 'gamesmanship'.
- 19th September 2013Give one argument against the use of PEDs that is not directly about health.
- 20th September 2013According to the inverted-U theory, what happens to performance once arousal rises past the optimal point?
- 21st September 2013Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 22nd September 2013Is expiration at rest an active or a passive process?
- 23rd September 2013Classify a marathon as aerobic or anaerobic exercise.
- 24th September 2013Why might a very active athlete need a higher daily energy intake than an inactive person of the same body size?
- 25th September 2013State the order of fulcrum, load and effort in a first-class lever.
- 26th September 2013Define muscular endurance.
- 27th September 2013What does the F in FITT stand for?
- 28th September 2013State one limitation of the sit and reach test's validity for a games player.
- 29th September 2013Why is the relationship between sport, sponsorship and the media described as a 'triangle' rather than a straight line?
- 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.