Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education

December 2020 5-a-day

Every sheet in December 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 December 2020Explain why a performer should not wait until they feel thirsty before drinking fluid during exercise.
  2. 2nd December 2020Define agonist.
  3. 3rd December 2020Explain what should be done instead of RICE if a fracture or dislocation is suspected.
  4. 4th December 2020A rugby player's warm-up lasts 15 minutes, with 6 minutes spent on the pulse raiser. What percentage of the warm-up is this?
  5. 5th December 2020Give one physical reason why participation in contact sport often falls as people get older.
  6. 6th December 2020State one drawback of using video technology to support officiating decisions.
  7. 7th December 2020A gymnast is told 'well done, that landing was perfectly balanced.' Classify this feedback by source and by tone.
  8. 8th December 2020Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
  9. 9th December 2020Which valve is found between the right atrium and the right ventricle?
  10. 10th December 2020State the main role of white blood cells.
  11. 11th December 2020What is a micronutrient?
  12. 12th December 2020Name the three planes of movement used in movement analysis.
  13. 13th December 2020Which 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?
  14. 14th December 2020A netball goal shooter records a vertical jump test score. Which skill-related component and which health-related component together help her jump higher to intercept a pass?
  15. 15th December 2020State one sporting example of how a dislocation might occur.
  16. 16th December 2020Define 'gamesmanship'.
  17. 17th December 2020Give one argument against the use of PEDs that is not directly about health.
  18. 18th December 2020Give one strategy a coach could use to raise a player's arousal before a match if they seem flat and under-motivated.
  19. 19th December 2020Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
  20. 20th December 2020Name the airway that air passes through directly after the trachea.
  21. 21st December 2020Define aerobic exercise.
  22. 22nd December 2020Why might a very active athlete need a higher daily energy intake than an inactive person of the same body size?
  23. 23rd December 2020State the order of fulcrum, load and effort in a first-class lever.
  24. 24th December 2020Which health-related component does the hand grip dynamometer test measure?
  25. 25th December 2020Define reversibility.
  26. 26th December 2020A 14-year-old female scores 24cm on the sit and reach test. Using the table (Excellent: above 30cm; Good: 25 to 30cm; Average: 15 to 24cm; Below average: 10 to 14cm; Poor: below 10cm), state her rating.
  27. 27th December 2020Why is the relationship between sport, sponsorship and the media described as a 'triangle' rather than a straight line?
  28. 28th December 2020Why can a skill's position on the open-closed continuum change between different performances of the same skill?
  29. 29th December 2020According to social learning theory, what must happen for an observed aggressive behaviour to be repeated?
  30. 30th December 2020What is the role of a fixator muscle?
  31. 31st December 2020State one reason the aerobic system is not suitable for a 100m sprint.