NFPT EXAM AND STUDY GUIDE ACTUAL EXAM 247 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
What are the 6 components of wellness? - correct answer Social Health- Relationships, etc.
Physical Health-See 5 components
Intellectual Health- Capacity for new info
Cognitive Health- Mental health, way we see world
Emotional Health- self-esteem, self awareness, etc.
Spiritual Health-connection with higher power
5 components of fitness - correct answer Cardiorespiratory Conditioning (endurance
Muscular conditioning
Muscular Strength
Flexibility (ROM)
Body Composition
The condition of your current state of being, related to absence of disease or injury. - correct
answer Health
ADL - correct answer Activities of Daily Living
3 influential aspects of behavior that will contribute to positivity. - correct answer Predisposing
factors, ex knowledge
Enabling factors, ex. skills, resources
Reinforcing factors, ex praise from others.
Muscular System - correct answer Produces force, maintains posture, allows for movement,
produces heat
Skeletal System - correct answer Body's structural support and protection
Circulatory System - correct answer Pumps blood to/from body. Sustained by heart and lungs.
Respiratory System - correct answer Deals with breathing. O in CO2 out
Nervous System - correct answer Communicates all autonomic and voluntary messages to all
body parts with the brain, spinal chord, and nerves.
Digestive system - correct answer Takes in, breaks down, transports, potentially transforms,
and eliminates all food substances so that they can provide energy.
Immune System - correct answer Protects body from attacks by pathogens. One of smallest
systems, but one of most spread out and important.
,NFPT EXAM AND STUDY GUIDE ACTUAL EXAM 247 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Endocrine System - correct answer System of glands that communicate and maintain
homeostasis using specific hormone secretions into the blood stream.
Integymentary System - correct answer Protects the body. Ex. Fat, skin,m hair, nails.
Urinary system. - correct answer Renal system. Elimination of waste, regulation of blood
volunme, controls electrolytes and metabolites.
Origin - correct answer Proximal. Point at which the muscle joins the stationary bone at the end
closest to the body.
Insertion - correct answer Distal. Point at which muscle joins the bone that will be moved.
How many muscles in adult human body? - correct answer 656
How many bones? - correct answer 206
Tough, connective tissue that covers the end of each bone - correct answer Cartilage
Blood travels away from the heart, carrying oxygenated blood to the bodsy though ________-;
deoxygentaed blood comes back to the heart through _____________. - correct answer
Arteries, veins.
Which muscle controls overal breathing process. - correct answer Diaphram
Division of nervous system that sends and receives information, and contains the brain and
spinal cord. - correct answer CNS
In which part of digestive system does most absorption of nutrients occur? - correct answer
Small Intestine
Glands release what into the blood stream that transport signals from one cell to another for
the purpose of soliciting a specific bodily response and/or function. - correct answer Hormones
Superior - correct answer Above
Inferior - correct answer Belowe
Anterior (Ventral) - correct answer In front, toward front
Posterior (Dorsal) - correct answer behind, toward back
Proximal - correct answer Closest to point of origin from center of body
Distal - correct answer Furthest from point of origin from center of body.
Medial - correct answer Toward middle of body
Lateral - correct answer Away from middle of body
Bilateral - correct answer Both sides of body
, NFPT EXAM AND STUDY GUIDE ACTUAL EXAM 247 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Unilateral - correct answer One side of body
Peripheral - correct answer Toward the extermites
Superficial - correct answer Toward outer surface
Deep muscles - correct answer Toward inner bodY
Abduction - correct answer MOvement away from body or body part's midline
Adduction - correct answer Movement toward body or body's midline
Flexion - correct answer Bending of a joint that decreases the angle
Extension - correct answer Straightening of a joint increasing the angle
Circumduction - correct answer MOTION OF A CIRCULAR MOVEMENT. Includes abduction,
adduction, flexion, and extension movements. Ex rotating foot in a circle.
Internal Rotation - correct answer Movement of body part around its axis, turning inward
External Rotation - correct answer Movement of body part turning outward
Protraction - correct answer Forward (anterior) movement of a body part
Retraction - correct answer Backward (posterior) movement of a body part
Hypoextension - correct answer extension less than normal, under-extended
Hyperextension - correct answer Extension beyond normal, over extended
Gliding - correct answer Movement of non angular joints over eachother
Deviation - correct answer Departure from the midline
Pronation - correct answer Palm of hand turning down into posterior position, inward roll of fot
Supination - correct answer Palm of hand turning upward into anterior position, outward roll of
foot
Inversion - correct answer Turning both feet inward, soles face eachother
Eversion - correct answer Both feel outward so soles face away from eachother
Dorsiflextion - correct answer pointing foot toward shin
Plantarflexion - correct answer Pointing foot downward (tiptoes)
Four types of contractions, describe each - correct answer Isometric- Load on muscle is greater
than generated tension=no movement
WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
What are the 6 components of wellness? - correct answer Social Health- Relationships, etc.
Physical Health-See 5 components
Intellectual Health- Capacity for new info
Cognitive Health- Mental health, way we see world
Emotional Health- self-esteem, self awareness, etc.
Spiritual Health-connection with higher power
5 components of fitness - correct answer Cardiorespiratory Conditioning (endurance
Muscular conditioning
Muscular Strength
Flexibility (ROM)
Body Composition
The condition of your current state of being, related to absence of disease or injury. - correct
answer Health
ADL - correct answer Activities of Daily Living
3 influential aspects of behavior that will contribute to positivity. - correct answer Predisposing
factors, ex knowledge
Enabling factors, ex. skills, resources
Reinforcing factors, ex praise from others.
Muscular System - correct answer Produces force, maintains posture, allows for movement,
produces heat
Skeletal System - correct answer Body's structural support and protection
Circulatory System - correct answer Pumps blood to/from body. Sustained by heart and lungs.
Respiratory System - correct answer Deals with breathing. O in CO2 out
Nervous System - correct answer Communicates all autonomic and voluntary messages to all
body parts with the brain, spinal chord, and nerves.
Digestive system - correct answer Takes in, breaks down, transports, potentially transforms,
and eliminates all food substances so that they can provide energy.
Immune System - correct answer Protects body from attacks by pathogens. One of smallest
systems, but one of most spread out and important.
,NFPT EXAM AND STUDY GUIDE ACTUAL EXAM 247 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Endocrine System - correct answer System of glands that communicate and maintain
homeostasis using specific hormone secretions into the blood stream.
Integymentary System - correct answer Protects the body. Ex. Fat, skin,m hair, nails.
Urinary system. - correct answer Renal system. Elimination of waste, regulation of blood
volunme, controls electrolytes and metabolites.
Origin - correct answer Proximal. Point at which the muscle joins the stationary bone at the end
closest to the body.
Insertion - correct answer Distal. Point at which muscle joins the bone that will be moved.
How many muscles in adult human body? - correct answer 656
How many bones? - correct answer 206
Tough, connective tissue that covers the end of each bone - correct answer Cartilage
Blood travels away from the heart, carrying oxygenated blood to the bodsy though ________-;
deoxygentaed blood comes back to the heart through _____________. - correct answer
Arteries, veins.
Which muscle controls overal breathing process. - correct answer Diaphram
Division of nervous system that sends and receives information, and contains the brain and
spinal cord. - correct answer CNS
In which part of digestive system does most absorption of nutrients occur? - correct answer
Small Intestine
Glands release what into the blood stream that transport signals from one cell to another for
the purpose of soliciting a specific bodily response and/or function. - correct answer Hormones
Superior - correct answer Above
Inferior - correct answer Belowe
Anterior (Ventral) - correct answer In front, toward front
Posterior (Dorsal) - correct answer behind, toward back
Proximal - correct answer Closest to point of origin from center of body
Distal - correct answer Furthest from point of origin from center of body.
Medial - correct answer Toward middle of body
Lateral - correct answer Away from middle of body
Bilateral - correct answer Both sides of body
, NFPT EXAM AND STUDY GUIDE ACTUAL EXAM 247 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Unilateral - correct answer One side of body
Peripheral - correct answer Toward the extermites
Superficial - correct answer Toward outer surface
Deep muscles - correct answer Toward inner bodY
Abduction - correct answer MOvement away from body or body part's midline
Adduction - correct answer Movement toward body or body's midline
Flexion - correct answer Bending of a joint that decreases the angle
Extension - correct answer Straightening of a joint increasing the angle
Circumduction - correct answer MOTION OF A CIRCULAR MOVEMENT. Includes abduction,
adduction, flexion, and extension movements. Ex rotating foot in a circle.
Internal Rotation - correct answer Movement of body part around its axis, turning inward
External Rotation - correct answer Movement of body part turning outward
Protraction - correct answer Forward (anterior) movement of a body part
Retraction - correct answer Backward (posterior) movement of a body part
Hypoextension - correct answer extension less than normal, under-extended
Hyperextension - correct answer Extension beyond normal, over extended
Gliding - correct answer Movement of non angular joints over eachother
Deviation - correct answer Departure from the midline
Pronation - correct answer Palm of hand turning down into posterior position, inward roll of fot
Supination - correct answer Palm of hand turning upward into anterior position, outward roll of
foot
Inversion - correct answer Turning both feet inward, soles face eachother
Eversion - correct answer Both feel outward so soles face away from eachother
Dorsiflextion - correct answer pointing foot toward shin
Plantarflexion - correct answer Pointing foot downward (tiptoes)
Four types of contractions, describe each - correct answer Isometric- Load on muscle is greater
than generated tension=no movement
