AFAA Test Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025 Graded A+
What is obesity? - Answers BMI higher than 30
What is energy? - Answers Ability to do work
Define ATP - Answers intracellular carrier of chemical energy produced by body for muscular work
What are the anerobic pathways? - Answers ATP- CP Phosphagen system
Lactic Acid System
Fuel source for Phosphagen system - Answers Chemical
Intensity for Phosphagen system - Answers fast, short
3 examples of activities of phosphagen - Answers power lifting, high jump, 200 meter
lactic acid fuel source - Answers glucose blood sugar
3 examples of activities of lactic acid system - Answers soccer, weight training, 400 meters
Aerobic pathway fuel source - Answers carbs, protein, fat
EPOC - Answers Excess post-oxygen consumption
EPOC means - Answers oxygen debt
Oxygen deficit - Answers period where level of oxygen consumption is below what is necessary to supply
approp. ATP production
Anerobic Threshold - Answers point where body can no longer meet its demand for oxygen
Aerobic Capacity - Answers body's ability to remove oxygen from air & transfer thru lungs & blood to
working muscles
Lactic Acid - Answers by product of anaerobic system
Stoke Volume - Answers amt of blood pumped per beat
cardiac Output - Answers vol of blood pumped by each ventricle for 1 min.
Venous Return - Answers pumping action of muscles in the extremities & resp system to remove oxygen
poor blood back to heart
Blood Pooling - Answers Blood remains in extremities caused by stopping too soon
Vital Capacity - Answers greatest vol of air that can be forcibly exhaled
Blood pressure norm - Answers 120/80
, Joint - Answers pt where 2 or more bones meet or articulate
ligament - Answers fibrous tissues connect bone to bone
tendon - Answers connect bone to muscle
cartilage - Answers slippery, smooth minimize friction, maintained by synovial fluid
anterior - Answers front
posterior - Answers back
medial - Answers midline of body
lateral - Answers side
supine - Answers lying on back
prone - Answers lying on stomach
unilateral - Answers 1 side of body
What are the 3 planes - Answers horizontal (transverse), sagittal, frontal
Horizontal - Answers top & bottom, line across middle
sagittal - Answers r & L, line down middle
frontal - Answers front and back, line down body
flexion - Answers bending of joint between 2 bones that decreases angle
Does flexion increase or decrease angle? - Answers Decrease
Extension - Answers Increases angle of 2 bones, straightening of muscle
Does flexion increase or decrease angle? - Answers Decrease
Abduction - Answers away
Adduction - Answers toward
Rotation - Answers movement around axis
Circumduction - Answers movement in a circle
Isometric - Answers muscle length stays the same
Concentric - Answers muscle shortens
What is obesity? - Answers BMI higher than 30
What is energy? - Answers Ability to do work
Define ATP - Answers intracellular carrier of chemical energy produced by body for muscular work
What are the anerobic pathways? - Answers ATP- CP Phosphagen system
Lactic Acid System
Fuel source for Phosphagen system - Answers Chemical
Intensity for Phosphagen system - Answers fast, short
3 examples of activities of phosphagen - Answers power lifting, high jump, 200 meter
lactic acid fuel source - Answers glucose blood sugar
3 examples of activities of lactic acid system - Answers soccer, weight training, 400 meters
Aerobic pathway fuel source - Answers carbs, protein, fat
EPOC - Answers Excess post-oxygen consumption
EPOC means - Answers oxygen debt
Oxygen deficit - Answers period where level of oxygen consumption is below what is necessary to supply
approp. ATP production
Anerobic Threshold - Answers point where body can no longer meet its demand for oxygen
Aerobic Capacity - Answers body's ability to remove oxygen from air & transfer thru lungs & blood to
working muscles
Lactic Acid - Answers by product of anaerobic system
Stoke Volume - Answers amt of blood pumped per beat
cardiac Output - Answers vol of blood pumped by each ventricle for 1 min.
Venous Return - Answers pumping action of muscles in the extremities & resp system to remove oxygen
poor blood back to heart
Blood Pooling - Answers Blood remains in extremities caused by stopping too soon
Vital Capacity - Answers greatest vol of air that can be forcibly exhaled
Blood pressure norm - Answers 120/80
, Joint - Answers pt where 2 or more bones meet or articulate
ligament - Answers fibrous tissues connect bone to bone
tendon - Answers connect bone to muscle
cartilage - Answers slippery, smooth minimize friction, maintained by synovial fluid
anterior - Answers front
posterior - Answers back
medial - Answers midline of body
lateral - Answers side
supine - Answers lying on back
prone - Answers lying on stomach
unilateral - Answers 1 side of body
What are the 3 planes - Answers horizontal (transverse), sagittal, frontal
Horizontal - Answers top & bottom, line across middle
sagittal - Answers r & L, line down middle
frontal - Answers front and back, line down body
flexion - Answers bending of joint between 2 bones that decreases angle
Does flexion increase or decrease angle? - Answers Decrease
Extension - Answers Increases angle of 2 bones, straightening of muscle
Does flexion increase or decrease angle? - Answers Decrease
Abduction - Answers away
Adduction - Answers toward
Rotation - Answers movement around axis
Circumduction - Answers movement in a circle
Isometric - Answers muscle length stays the same
Concentric - Answers muscle shortens
