CSEP-CEP Section 1 Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What does CSEP stand for?
Answer: Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology
Question 2: How is the body assumed to be?
Answer: - standing upright -feet together Head, eyes, and palms facing forward
Question 3: What are the 3 major planes of the body? & what are the secondary names for each?
Answer: -frontal (coronal): divides body into anterior & posterior sides of the body -sagittal (medial):
divides body into right and left sides - transverse (horizontal): divides body superior (towards head) and
inferior (away from the head)
Question 4: What are the planes axis of movement(s)? Give some examples of how it would be seen or
used
Answer: - Sagittal (médial): flexion & extension. Ex. Walking, squats, overhead press - frontal (coronal):
abduction and adduction. Ex. Lateral raises or jumping jacks - transverse (horizontal): internal and external
rotation, pronation/supination, horizontal flexion and extension. Ex. Golf swing, ball swing, throwing
Question 5: What is circumduction?
Answer: moving the arm in a circle around the shoulder
Question 6: The brain is protected by ... while the lungs are protected by ...?
Answer: - skull - ribcage
Question 7: New red blood cells are produced by?
Answer: Red bone marrow
Question 8: The adult body is made up of how many bones?
Answer: 206 bones
Question 9: What are the 2 major divisions in the skeletal system and what does each one compose in
them?
Answer: - axial skeletal: made up of 80 individual bones from the skull, hyoid, auditory ossicles, sternum,
ribcage, and vertebrae -appendicular skeletal: made up of 126 bones in the upper and lower limbs and the
pelvic and shoulder girdles
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, Question 10: What are the long bones and what does it have?
Answer: -femur, tibia, fibula, metatarsals & phalanges - it has a hollow medullary cavity in the center of
them that contains bone marrow
Question 11: What is the main purpose of a long bone?
Answer: Bones that grow to help increase ones height
Question 12: What shape is a short bone and what are some examples?
Answer: - they are cubed and round in shape - examples: carpal of the wrist and tarsal bones of the foot
Question 13: Flat bones are what kind of shape?
Answer: They are thin in one direction and they do not have a medullary cavity like long bones
Question 14: What are some examples of a flat bone?
Answer: - frontal, parietal, occupital bones of cranium, hip and rib bones
Question 15: What is an irregular bone?
Answer: They do not fit the pattern (shape) of a long, short, or flat bone
Question 16: What are examples of an irregular bone?
Answer: - vertebrae, sacrum and coccyx
Question 17: Describe a sesamoid bone
Answer: It occurs after birth that runs across the joints and grows to protect the tendons from stresses and
strains at the joint and can help in mechanical advantage to muscles pulling on the tendon
Question 18: What is a joint? And what is the most common?
Answer: - Point of contact between a bone and a cartilage - most common is a synovial joint or fluid that
helps to lubricate a joint
Question 19: What are fibrous joints?
Answer: Are where the bones are very tightly joined and has little to no movement between the bones.
connects bone to bone
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Question 1: What does CSEP stand for?
Answer: Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology
Question 2: How is the body assumed to be?
Answer: - standing upright -feet together Head, eyes, and palms facing forward
Question 3: What are the 3 major planes of the body? & what are the secondary names for each?
Answer: -frontal (coronal): divides body into anterior & posterior sides of the body -sagittal (medial):
divides body into right and left sides - transverse (horizontal): divides body superior (towards head) and
inferior (away from the head)
Question 4: What are the planes axis of movement(s)? Give some examples of how it would be seen or
used
Answer: - Sagittal (médial): flexion & extension. Ex. Walking, squats, overhead press - frontal (coronal):
abduction and adduction. Ex. Lateral raises or jumping jacks - transverse (horizontal): internal and external
rotation, pronation/supination, horizontal flexion and extension. Ex. Golf swing, ball swing, throwing
Question 5: What is circumduction?
Answer: moving the arm in a circle around the shoulder
Question 6: The brain is protected by ... while the lungs are protected by ...?
Answer: - skull - ribcage
Question 7: New red blood cells are produced by?
Answer: Red bone marrow
Question 8: The adult body is made up of how many bones?
Answer: 206 bones
Question 9: What are the 2 major divisions in the skeletal system and what does each one compose in
them?
Answer: - axial skeletal: made up of 80 individual bones from the skull, hyoid, auditory ossicles, sternum,
ribcage, and vertebrae -appendicular skeletal: made up of 126 bones in the upper and lower limbs and the
pelvic and shoulder girdles
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, Question 10: What are the long bones and what does it have?
Answer: -femur, tibia, fibula, metatarsals & phalanges - it has a hollow medullary cavity in the center of
them that contains bone marrow
Question 11: What is the main purpose of a long bone?
Answer: Bones that grow to help increase ones height
Question 12: What shape is a short bone and what are some examples?
Answer: - they are cubed and round in shape - examples: carpal of the wrist and tarsal bones of the foot
Question 13: Flat bones are what kind of shape?
Answer: They are thin in one direction and they do not have a medullary cavity like long bones
Question 14: What are some examples of a flat bone?
Answer: - frontal, parietal, occupital bones of cranium, hip and rib bones
Question 15: What is an irregular bone?
Answer: They do not fit the pattern (shape) of a long, short, or flat bone
Question 16: What are examples of an irregular bone?
Answer: - vertebrae, sacrum and coccyx
Question 17: Describe a sesamoid bone
Answer: It occurs after birth that runs across the joints and grows to protect the tendons from stresses and
strains at the joint and can help in mechanical advantage to muscles pulling on the tendon
Question 18: What is a joint? And what is the most common?
Answer: - Point of contact between a bone and a cartilage - most common is a synovial joint or fluid that
helps to lubricate a joint
Question 19: What are fibrous joints?
Answer: Are where the bones are very tightly joined and has little to no movement between the bones.
connects bone to bone
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