PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND
HEALTH EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS. A+ GRADE
2025/2026.
Research on Stress - ANS Stress does not have a negative impact on health like we used to
think, BELIEVING that stress is bad for you does. Healthiest people are those with high levels of
stress that DO NOT believe stress is a bad thing.
Lifestyle or modifiable risk factors - ANS Things you can control to reduce your chance of
developing a disease. Healthy lifestyle reduces risk of type II diabetes.
Genetic or non-modifiable risk factors - ANS Things you can not control to reduce your
chance of developing a disease. Age, gender, race, family history.
Scope of Practice - ANS Who you are qualified to and comfortable working with. Comes
down to personal experience, confidence, education, etc.
Sometimes you need to work with doctors, physios, etc - they write the programme for a client
(eg. knee reconstruction) and you deliver it.
Myocardial Infarction - ANS Heart attack
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, Angina - ANS Mini heart attack - warning sign of future heart attack.
Cardiac Arrest v Heart Attack - ANS Cardiac Arrest - electrical problem, heart stops,
unconscious and needs CPR, call 111.
Heart Attack - block is causing heart to lose blood supply, conscious, call 111.
Signs of a heart attack - ANS Pain in jaw, shoulder, arm or chest. Sweating, short of breath.
Risk factors for a heart attack - ANS Poor diet, lack of exercise, genetics, age, overweight,
hypertension.
Exercise post-heart attack - ANS Low intensity, aerobic, build up duration and frequency.
Resistance training down the track.
Surgery for a heart attack - ANS Angioplasty and stent - go into the artery with chicken wire
and a balloon to push the block (plaque) against the walls and restore blood flow.
By-pass surgery - graft on another blood vessel to "by-pass" the block.
Aneurysm - ANS Bulge or balloon in a blood vessels that weakens it - more likely to burst.
Thrombosis - ANS Block that occurs at the site - plaque build up or blood clot to repair
damaged vessel.
Embolus - ANS Travelling plaque or blood clot that then gets wedged to block a blood vessel.
Atherosclerosis - ANS Process of plaque build up over time.
Ischemia - ANS Loss of blood flow due to a block.
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HEALTH EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS. A+ GRADE
2025/2026.
Research on Stress - ANS Stress does not have a negative impact on health like we used to
think, BELIEVING that stress is bad for you does. Healthiest people are those with high levels of
stress that DO NOT believe stress is a bad thing.
Lifestyle or modifiable risk factors - ANS Things you can control to reduce your chance of
developing a disease. Healthy lifestyle reduces risk of type II diabetes.
Genetic or non-modifiable risk factors - ANS Things you can not control to reduce your
chance of developing a disease. Age, gender, race, family history.
Scope of Practice - ANS Who you are qualified to and comfortable working with. Comes
down to personal experience, confidence, education, etc.
Sometimes you need to work with doctors, physios, etc - they write the programme for a client
(eg. knee reconstruction) and you deliver it.
Myocardial Infarction - ANS Heart attack
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, Angina - ANS Mini heart attack - warning sign of future heart attack.
Cardiac Arrest v Heart Attack - ANS Cardiac Arrest - electrical problem, heart stops,
unconscious and needs CPR, call 111.
Heart Attack - block is causing heart to lose blood supply, conscious, call 111.
Signs of a heart attack - ANS Pain in jaw, shoulder, arm or chest. Sweating, short of breath.
Risk factors for a heart attack - ANS Poor diet, lack of exercise, genetics, age, overweight,
hypertension.
Exercise post-heart attack - ANS Low intensity, aerobic, build up duration and frequency.
Resistance training down the track.
Surgery for a heart attack - ANS Angioplasty and stent - go into the artery with chicken wire
and a balloon to push the block (plaque) against the walls and restore blood flow.
By-pass surgery - graft on another blood vessel to "by-pass" the block.
Aneurysm - ANS Bulge or balloon in a blood vessels that weakens it - more likely to burst.
Thrombosis - ANS Block that occurs at the site - plaque build up or blood clot to repair
damaged vessel.
Embolus - ANS Travelling plaque or blood clot that then gets wedged to block a blood vessel.
Atherosclerosis - ANS Process of plaque build up over time.
Ischemia - ANS Loss of blood flow due to a block.
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