Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education

February 2020 5-a-day

Every sheet in February 2020

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st February 2020Classify a 100m sprint as aerobic or anaerobic exercise.
  2. 2nd February 2020A 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?
  3. 3rd February 2020Give a named body example of a first-class lever.
  4. 4th February 2020Give one sport in which cardiovascular endurance is especially important, and explain why.
  5. 5th February 2020A performer has a maximum heart rate of 190 bpm. Calculate the upper boundary of their aerobic training zone (80% of maximum heart rate).
  6. 6th February 2020What is normative data used for?
  7. 7th February 2020Define 'commercialisation' in the context of sport.
  8. 8th February 2020Why can a skill's position on the open-closed continuum change between different performances of the same skill?
  9. 9th February 2020According to social learning theory, what must happen for an observed aggressive behaviour to be repeated?
  10. 10th February 2020Name the bone that protects the brain.
  11. 11th February 2020State the fuel used by the ATP-PC system.
  12. 12th February 2020Which of the three wellbeing dimensions - physical, emotional or social - is most directly improved by joining a new sports club? Justify your choice.
  13. 13th February 2020What is dietary manipulation?
  14. 14th February 2020Explain why a star jump occurs in the frontal plane.
  15. 15th February 2020Give one reason a PEP should include an appropriate warm-up in every session.
  16. 16th February 2020Which training method uses a series of different exercise stations?
  17. 17th February 2020State one effect of playing sport in very hot weather.
  18. 18th February 2020Give three examples of media channels through which sport is broadcast or reported.
  19. 19th February 2020Give one example of a task-irrelevant cue that could distract a performer during a match.
  20. 20th February 2020Give one example of a sport that would typically suit an extrovert's preference for stimulation and social contact.
  21. 21st February 2020State roughly how long the fast component of EPOC takes to complete.
  22. 22nd February 2020What term describes the redistribution of blood flow towards working muscles during exercise?
  23. 23rd February 2020What is osteoporosis?
  24. 24th February 2020Describe the physical characteristics of an endomorph.
  25. 25th February 2020Define abduction.
  26. 26th February 2020State the approximate percentage of 1RM range typically used to develop muscular endurance.
  27. 27th February 2020Explain why a performer should not stop training completely during the transition period.
  28. 28th February 2020State one reason participation in team sport can fall among ethnic minority groups in areas with few local facilities.
  29. 29th February 2020Give one example of the level at which sponsorship can operate below elite sport.