ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Dermatophyte Fungi - CORRECT ANSWER - athletes foot, itching and scaling between
toes, looks like soggy skin
E. coli - CORRECT ANSWER - spreads easily, comes from faecal matter, transferred
easily, killed by chlorination
Hepatitis A - CORRECT ANSWER - virus, inflammation of the liver, spread through
contaminated food or water, killed by chlorine
Legionella - CORRECT ANSWER - bacteria, form of pnemonia caught by breathing
aerosols or sprays, multiply in water at 20-45C
Cohesion - CORRECT ANSWER - attraction between molecules of the same substance
Adhesion - CORRECT ANSWER - attraction between molecules of different substances
Conductivity - CORRECT ANSWER - the ability of a substance to carry an electrical
current
Specific legislations relating to spa therapy - CORRECT ANSWER - Workplace (health,
safety and welfare) Regulations
Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations
Construction (design and management) Regulations
Water makes up how much of the human body - CORRECT ANSWER - 65-75%
, Valency of oxygen - CORRECT ANSWER -2
Minerals found in water in the human body - CORRECT ANSWER - bromine
chlorine
iodine
manganese
Temperature of a Finnish sauna - CORRECT ANSWER - 70-100C
Temperature of a steam bath - CORRECT ANSWER - 50-55C
Depth of the rays of an infrared sauna penetrate how deep - CORRECT ANSWER - 45mm
pH inside a flotation tank - CORRECT ANSWER - 7.2-7.4
pH inside a spa pool - CORRECT ANSWER - 7.2-7.8
Yellow creamy medicinal mud with gentle peeling properties used in the Rasul - CORRECT
ANSWER - Bolus beta
Law of Pascal - CORRECT ANSWER - When a body is immersed in water, the pressure
exerted on it is equal everywhere at a constant depth and is exerted equally in a horizontal
direction at any level (relates to hydrostatic pressure)
Dead Sea in Israel contains how much more salt than normal sea water - CORRECT
ANSWER - 10x