AQA GCSE PE-Questions with Correct Answers|Verified
Fatigue - ✔✔A feeling of extreme or severe (physical or mental) tiredness
Health - ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease.
Exercise - ✔✔Any physical activity aimed to improve health and/or fitness
Role of an organiser - ✔✔Arrange and co-ordinate competitions and events, as well as
facilities and training sessions
Aim to maximise promotion, participation and high level performance
Skills of an organiser - ✔✔Show initiative, good at promoting events
Role and skills of an official - ✔✔Control an event, often through ensuring the upholding of
rules
Must be authoritative, observant and should have a good knowledge of the sport
Roles and skills of a coach - ✔✔Evaluating a player's performance, and helping them train
and progress in the sport. Ensure players are in peak physical and mental state
Must be a specialist in the sport, good at communicating verbally and non-verbally with
players
Captain - ✔✔Leads a team in a game, so should be able to respopnd well under pressure
and be decisive and adaptive
Main functions of the skeletal system - ✔✔Support, movement, protection, making blood
cells in the bone marrow, storing minerals such as calcium
Cartilage - ✔✔Acts as a cushion between bones to stop them rubbing
, Ligaments - ✔✔Strong fibre that holds bones together
Tendons - ✔✔Holds bone to muscle
Two types of joint - ✔✔freely and slightly movable joints
Extension - ✔✔Increasing angle of joint
Flexion - ✔✔Decreasing angle of joint
Ball and socket joints - ✔✔Flex, extend, adduct, abduct, rotate
hip and shoulder are examples
Hinge joint - ✔✔flex and extend
knees and elbows are examples
2 muscle types - ✔✔voluntary and involuntary
Muscles are made of - ✔✔fibres
Antagonistic muscles - ✔✔work in pairs, so when the agonist contracts the antagonist
relaxes
Eg biceps and triceps
Route of air entering body - ✔✔trachea > bronchi > bronchioles > alveoli
What happens when you breathe in? - ✔✔intercostal muscles and diaphragm contract to
increase lung volume, lower pressure to suck air in. Oxygen diffuses through alveoli cell wall
into blood stream
Fatigue - ✔✔A feeling of extreme or severe (physical or mental) tiredness
Health - ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease.
Exercise - ✔✔Any physical activity aimed to improve health and/or fitness
Role of an organiser - ✔✔Arrange and co-ordinate competitions and events, as well as
facilities and training sessions
Aim to maximise promotion, participation and high level performance
Skills of an organiser - ✔✔Show initiative, good at promoting events
Role and skills of an official - ✔✔Control an event, often through ensuring the upholding of
rules
Must be authoritative, observant and should have a good knowledge of the sport
Roles and skills of a coach - ✔✔Evaluating a player's performance, and helping them train
and progress in the sport. Ensure players are in peak physical and mental state
Must be a specialist in the sport, good at communicating verbally and non-verbally with
players
Captain - ✔✔Leads a team in a game, so should be able to respopnd well under pressure
and be decisive and adaptive
Main functions of the skeletal system - ✔✔Support, movement, protection, making blood
cells in the bone marrow, storing minerals such as calcium
Cartilage - ✔✔Acts as a cushion between bones to stop them rubbing
, Ligaments - ✔✔Strong fibre that holds bones together
Tendons - ✔✔Holds bone to muscle
Two types of joint - ✔✔freely and slightly movable joints
Extension - ✔✔Increasing angle of joint
Flexion - ✔✔Decreasing angle of joint
Ball and socket joints - ✔✔Flex, extend, adduct, abduct, rotate
hip and shoulder are examples
Hinge joint - ✔✔flex and extend
knees and elbows are examples
2 muscle types - ✔✔voluntary and involuntary
Muscles are made of - ✔✔fibres
Antagonistic muscles - ✔✔work in pairs, so when the agonist contracts the antagonist
relaxes
Eg biceps and triceps
Route of air entering body - ✔✔trachea > bronchi > bronchioles > alveoli
What happens when you breathe in? - ✔✔intercostal muscles and diaphragm contract to
increase lung volume, lower pressure to suck air in. Oxygen diffuses through alveoli cell wall
into blood stream
