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.

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