Physical Education Content Exam (076)
Test Questions and All Correct Answers
2026-2027 Updated.
Components of Health-Related Fitness - Answer 1. Cardio respiratory Endurance
2. Muscular Strength
3. Muscular Endurance
4. Flexibility
5. Healthy Body Composition
National Association for Sport and PE (NASPE)'s - Answer Identifies quality PE as both
developmentally and instructionally appropriate for the actual children involved.
Developmentally + Instructionally Appropriate - Answer Consider both physical and cognitive
development by enabling students to analyze, communicate, question, integrate, apply
concepts, and attain multicultural worldviews.
Also promotes affective development throughout the school year.
Physical Fitness - Answer Defines the individual as being able to complete all of one's daily
living tasks without become overly tired and still having enjoyment for other actives.
Effective fitness programs include: aerobic exercises, resistant training, and flexibility.
Body + Spacial Awareness - Answer Pointing, touching, seeing different parts of the body
Fit body into differently sized and shaped spaces
Spacial Concepts: up, down, right, left, forward, backwards, diagonal. (Levels: low, medium,
high)
Movement Concepts - Answer Pathways + PLANES (vertical, horizontal, circle)
Energy (short term, high term)
Time (shorter, longer)
Speed (slow, medium, fast)
Force (soft, hard)
, Torque - Answer Rotational version of force. How much given force can make
something/someone rotate or turn.
Example. Skater with longer arms, rotates quicker.
Bio mechanical Summation - Answer Summation of forces is to attain maximal force with any
movement that used multiple muscles in a manner that enables generating the maximum force
possible.
Concept: Force-motion states that, when we produce or change movement, unbalanced forces
act upon our bodies or objects we manipulate.
Locomotor Skills Vs. Non locomotor Skills - Answer Walking, running, hopping, jumping,
skipping, galloping, sliding, galloping sideways, leaping.
Bending, twisting, curling, swaying..
Fundamental Motor Skills - Answer Running, jumping vertically, leaping, dodging, kicking,
overhand throwing, catching, ball bouncing, punting, forehand striking, and two handed side
arm striking.
Manipulative + Object Control Skill - Answer Fine Motor: zipping zippers, clasps, twist ties,
pencils, drawing, using utensils...
Manipulative: pushing, pulling, lifting, swinging, sticking, throwing, catching, kicking, rolling a
ball, bouncing, dribbling (using an object or piece of equipment)
Stages of Human Life (8) - Answer Infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, late childhood,
adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood.
Piaget's Stages for Cognitive Development - Answer Infants are in the sensorimotor stage of
cognitive development, perceiving the world through receiving sensory stimuli and responding
and interacting through motor activities.
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development - Answer Trust vs. Mistrust
Initiative vs. Guilt
Industry vs. inferiority
Identity vs. role confusion
Test Questions and All Correct Answers
2026-2027 Updated.
Components of Health-Related Fitness - Answer 1. Cardio respiratory Endurance
2. Muscular Strength
3. Muscular Endurance
4. Flexibility
5. Healthy Body Composition
National Association for Sport and PE (NASPE)'s - Answer Identifies quality PE as both
developmentally and instructionally appropriate for the actual children involved.
Developmentally + Instructionally Appropriate - Answer Consider both physical and cognitive
development by enabling students to analyze, communicate, question, integrate, apply
concepts, and attain multicultural worldviews.
Also promotes affective development throughout the school year.
Physical Fitness - Answer Defines the individual as being able to complete all of one's daily
living tasks without become overly tired and still having enjoyment for other actives.
Effective fitness programs include: aerobic exercises, resistant training, and flexibility.
Body + Spacial Awareness - Answer Pointing, touching, seeing different parts of the body
Fit body into differently sized and shaped spaces
Spacial Concepts: up, down, right, left, forward, backwards, diagonal. (Levels: low, medium,
high)
Movement Concepts - Answer Pathways + PLANES (vertical, horizontal, circle)
Energy (short term, high term)
Time (shorter, longer)
Speed (slow, medium, fast)
Force (soft, hard)
, Torque - Answer Rotational version of force. How much given force can make
something/someone rotate or turn.
Example. Skater with longer arms, rotates quicker.
Bio mechanical Summation - Answer Summation of forces is to attain maximal force with any
movement that used multiple muscles in a manner that enables generating the maximum force
possible.
Concept: Force-motion states that, when we produce or change movement, unbalanced forces
act upon our bodies or objects we manipulate.
Locomotor Skills Vs. Non locomotor Skills - Answer Walking, running, hopping, jumping,
skipping, galloping, sliding, galloping sideways, leaping.
Bending, twisting, curling, swaying..
Fundamental Motor Skills - Answer Running, jumping vertically, leaping, dodging, kicking,
overhand throwing, catching, ball bouncing, punting, forehand striking, and two handed side
arm striking.
Manipulative + Object Control Skill - Answer Fine Motor: zipping zippers, clasps, twist ties,
pencils, drawing, using utensils...
Manipulative: pushing, pulling, lifting, swinging, sticking, throwing, catching, kicking, rolling a
ball, bouncing, dribbling (using an object or piece of equipment)
Stages of Human Life (8) - Answer Infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, late childhood,
adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood.
Piaget's Stages for Cognitive Development - Answer Infants are in the sensorimotor stage of
cognitive development, perceiving the world through receiving sensory stimuli and responding
and interacting through motor activities.
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development - Answer Trust vs. Mistrust
Initiative vs. Guilt
Industry vs. inferiority
Identity vs. role confusion
