Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
October 2015 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2015Explain why ice should never be applied directly to bare skin.
- 2nd October 2015State one physiological benefit of warming up before exercise.
- 3rd October 2015Give one physical reason why participation in contact sport often falls as people get older.
- 4th October 2015State one drawback of using video technology to support officiating decisions.
- 5th October 2015A gymnast is told 'well done, that landing was perfectly balanced.' Classify this feedback by source and by tone.
- 6th October 2015Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
- 7th October 2015Name the blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood away from the heart to the lungs.
- 8th October 2015What protein within red blood cells binds to oxygen?
- 9th October 2015What is a micronutrient?
- 10th October 2015Name the three planes of movement used in movement analysis.
- 11th October 2015Which 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?
- 12th October 2015Define agility.
- 13th October 2015What type of tissue is damaged in a sprain?
- 14th October 2015Define 'gamesmanship'.
- 15th October 2015Give one argument against the use of PEDs that is not directly about health.
- 16th October 2015Give one physical sign that a performer may be under-aroused before a competition.
- 17th October 2015Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 18th October 2015Name the muscle that contracts and flattens during inspiration.
- 19th October 2015Give one reason a fast walk lasting an hour would be classed as aerobic rather than anaerobic exercise.
- 20th October 2015Why might a very active athlete need a higher daily energy intake than an inactive person of the same body size?
- 21st October 2015State the order of fulcrum, load and effort in a first-class lever.
- 22nd October 2015State two pieces of equipment needed to carry out the multi-stage fitness test.
- 23rd October 2015Give one way a performer could apply progressive overload to a running programme without changing how often they train.
- 24th October 2015Define reliability in the context of fitness testing.
- 25th October 2015Why is the relationship between sport, sponsorship and the media described as a 'triangle' rather than a straight line?
- 26th October 2015Classify a trampolining routine on the self-paced/externally paced continuum, and give one reason.
- 27th October 2015Give one strategy a coach could use to reduce a team's use of indirect aggression during matches.
- 28th October 2015A gymnast holds a handstand. What keeps the shoulder joint stable while other muscles work to maintain balance?
- 29th October 2015Name the molecule that is broken down to directly release energy for muscle contraction.
- 30th October 2015State the WHO definition of health.
- 31st October 2015What is meant by 'body composition'?