Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
December 2015 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2015Which blood cells contain haemoglobin and carry oxygen around the body?
- 2nd December 2015Explain why a lack of iron could reduce a performer's aerobic performance.
- 3rd December 2015Name the three components of every lever system.
- 4th December 2015During the upward phase of a vertical jump, the knee extends. Name the agonist muscle producing this action.
- 5th December 2015Name the test used to measure power.
- 6th December 2015A 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?
- 7th December 2015What is meant by 'hooliganism' in a sporting context?
- 8th December 2015Explain how EPO (erythropoietin) improves endurance performance.
- 9th December 2015Define arousal in a sporting context.
- 10th December 2015Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 11th December 2015State the direction oxygen moves during gaseous exchange at the alveoli.
- 12th December 2015Name one team sport in which players use both aerobic and anaerobic exercise during a single match.
- 13th December 2015A cyclist expends 2,800 kilocalories in a day and eats food providing 3,100 kilocalories. Is this a surplus or a deficit, and by how much?
- 14th December 2015Give a named body example of a first-class lever.
- 15th December 2015Name the test used to measure flexibility.
- 16th December 2015Why might a training programme that never changes exercises or intensity risk breaking two principles of training at once?
- 17th December 2015Give one reason a coach might carry out fitness testing at the start of a season.
- 18th December 2015Define 'commercialisation' in the context of sport.
- 19th December 2015Define a closed skill.
- 20th December 2015A 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?
- 21st December 2015Identify the agonist and antagonist muscle pair that works at the knee joint.
- 22nd December 2015State roughly how long the ATP-PC system can supply energy for before it is depleted.
- 23rd December 2015Give one physical benefit of taking part in physical activity.
- 24th December 2015What is dietary manipulation?
- 25th December 2015Explain why a star jump occurs in the frontal plane.
- 26th December 2015A 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?
- 27th December 2015State the main energy system developed by continuous training.
- 28th December 2015Give one piece of protective equipment used in hockey, and state what injury it helps prevent.
- 29th December 2015Give one reason women's sport has historically received less media coverage than men's sport in the UK.
- 30th December 2015Give one example of a task-irrelevant cue that could distract a performer during a match.
- 31st December 2015Give one example of a sport that would typically suit an extrovert's preference for stimulation and social contact.