Health Test 3/26/24

Physical activity has benefits for mental and emotional health including lower levels of depression and anxiety.  For example, have you ever been stressed out from school, but felt better after getting some physical activity?  This happens because the brain releases a specific chemical that makes us feel good.  What is this specific chemical called?

Physical activity has benefits for mental and emotional health including lower levels of depression and anxiety.  For example, have you ever been stressed out from school, but felt better after getting some physical activity?  This happens because the brain releases a specific chemical that makes us feel good.  What is this specific chemical called?

Endorphins

Which of the following is an example of an anaerobic activity?

Sprinting

Which health condition is known to make the bones fragile and brittle? This condition can be avoided by staying physically activity and engaging in weight bearing exercises such as lifting weights, which helps strengthen bones, muscles, and ligaments.

Osteoporosis

We know that physical activity and physical exercise are similar but not the same.  Is physical activity or physical exercise structured, planned, and has the purpose of increasing physical fitness?

Physical Exercise

Aerobic activities occur in short, intense bursts, while Anaerobic activities continue over a longer period of time (True/False)

False

Getting high-quality sleep improves a person’s concentration, energy, and mental and emotional health.  What does research support as an effective tool to help with sleep quality just as much as sleep medications?

Strength Training

Which of the following does physical activity decrease the risk of?

Cancers, Diabetes, Depression, Anxiety, Cardiovascular Disease

There are two types of physical fitness: health-related and skill-related.  Which type of fitness is the type of physical fitness you need to perform daily activities with ease and energy?

Health-related

We have two types of health-related fitness: aerobic and anaerobic activities.  Aerobic uses oxygen to break down energy for the use of muscles while anaerobic powers the body without the use of oxygen (True/False)

True

Speed, agility, balance, power, coordination, and reaction time are all apart of which kind of fitness?

Skill-related fitness

Which training principle says you must vary the frequency, intensity, time, or type of your physical activities over time to improve fitness?

Progression Principle

Which training principle says you must put demands on your body to improve it.  You need to overload the body in order to strengthen it. 

Overload Principle

Which of the following would be a “sedentary” behavior.  Remember, sedentary behaviors are activities that consists of lying down or sitting and using very little energy. 

Sitting on the couch and watching TV

The US Department of HHS published certain guidelines that recommend we get how much moderate to vigorous physical activity every day?

1 Hour

What is the amount of energy the body uses per minute during an activity. 

Intensity

What activity prepares the body for physical activity, gets the blood pumping to the muscles and helps stretch the muscles?

Warmup

Which part of the R.I.C.E. method recommends wrapping the injury with an elastic bandage to prevent or reduce swelling?

Immobilize

What are the possible symptoms of somebody that is experiencing altitude sickness (mountain sickness)?

Dizziness, Headaches, Muscle Aches, Nausea

What is a condition in which bones move out of their normal positions called?

Dislocation

What is a break in a bone called?

Fracture

Bending at the knees, using your leg muscles to lift and not your back, and tightening your stomach muscles as you lift and lower an object are all considered what?

Strategies for Safe Lifting

What is a condition in which the skin and body tissues beneath the skin freeze?

Frostbite

What is known as a medical emergency in which body temperature is too low; can lead to shock, coma, and death?

Hypothermia

What is an injury to a ligament called?  

Sprain

Disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis are all conditions that make up the Female Athlete Triad (True/False)

True

Being active in high heat and humidity can lead to hot weather emergencies.  What is the recommended amount of fluid, preferably water, to drink every 20 minutes while being active?

8 ounces