MTTC PE TEST QUESTONS AND ANSWERS
Physical education terms - Answers -ELL have trouble with this language?
Picture of - Answers -Hamstring/spinal stretch
Picture of - Answers -Hip flexor stretch pic
What is the best way to come out of an over handstand/headstand? - Answers -Tuck
and roll on your back
How would you access a student walking on a balance beam? - Answers -How
balanced and comfortable they are walking across
When constructing BMI you want to make sure? - Answers -You are in an area where
the student feels comfortable and they have privacy of results
Obesity and hereditary are connected how? - Answers -Hereditary is significantly
associated with diseases similar to obesity but it is not the cause of obesity.
Why do women have bodies that become slower or not as strong as men? - Answers -
They do not produce as much testosterone as men
How should students be stationed? Circuit training? - Answers -Have some challenging
stations and some where kids have more fun where the students enjoy
An example of corrective feedback - Answers -When a person says a compliment about
something good the person does, but then corrects the student on something else they
can work on. Example: great job bobby on kicking the ball using your outside foot! Now,
make sure to use the inside of your foot to kick the soccer ball
A sedentary lifestyle person loses what from not exercising? - Answers -Flexibility
Weight training is good because? - Answers -1. Stronger muscles can prevent injuries
2. Can help prevent osteoporosis
3. Can improve posture and help keep body imbalance
4. Can increase lean body mass, which increases metabolism
5. Helps shape body
6. Increases bone density
When you let students help establish the rules you? - Answers -They feel more
responsible and they feel more accountable
Giving students more say, having them write down activities helps them feel? - Answers
-Like they are deciding on what games to play. Makes them feel like they have a voice
and are listened to
,Where should a teacher put big equipment? - Answers -Try to buy smaller equipment
where they can fit in storage
Locomotor skill/development - Answers -Physical action that propels an individual from
one place to another.... waking, skipping, running, galloping etc
In high school what do kids think the most related to PE? - Answers -Body image
Shadow on projector screen is teaching kids? - Answers -Spatial awareness
In middle school, kids normally join sports because? - Answers -Their peers or friends
are in it
Manipulative skills - Answers -Pull, push, lift, strike, throw, kick, bounce
Force absorption - Answers -Object will stay in prescribed straight path and will move at
it's given speed unless some force acts to change it
Central nervous system - Answers -Consists of the brain and spinal cord
Specificity principle - Answers -Overloading a particular fitness components
Overhand throw - Answers -Stride, hip, rotation, trunk rotation, forward arm movement
Underhand throw - Answers -Draw armback, triceps straight the elbow, hypertends,
posterior deltoid, etc
JOPERD - Answers -Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance. Includes
articles on teaching strategies, fitness, legal issues, assessment, dancing, teacher
education, adapted physical education, leisure for older adults, use of technology, and
ethics and gender equity in sports and physical education.
JOPERD mission? - Answers -To advance the common goals and discrete roles of
health, PE, recreation, and dance professionals who are committed to improving the
quality of life through the movement arts and sciences, sport and leisure. Serves as a
professional source for educators. Teaching methods, curriculum, preparation, etc.
Title IX of Education Act of 1972 is? - Answers -Prohibits discrimination on the basis of
sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
Resting heart rate - Answers -The number of times your heart beats per minute while at
complete rest.
, Target heart rate - Answers -Minimum number of heartbeats in a given amount of time
in order to reach the level of exertion necessary for cardiovascular fitness, specific to a
person's age, gender, or physical fitness.
If equipment is being placed in the weight room what factors in how far apart or where
you put it? - Answers -How much space the equipment needs space to complete the
exercise
What is hand eye coordination to secondary students? - Answers -Hitting a ball off the
tee
What force is being absorbed the most? - Answers -Catching a basketball
What should you do if a child dives wrong and has an emergency? Use emergency plan
then what after? - Answers -Make sure the child's head is immobilized and back
flat/straight
Kinesthetic/kinaesthetic is? - Answers -Learning style in which learning takes place by
the students carrying out physical activities, rather than listening to a lecture or watching
demonstrations. Hands on learning, visual learning, auditory learning.
Intrinsic feedback (proprioception) - Answers -Feedback from joint receptors, muscles,
etc.
Intrinsic motivation - Answers -Coming from your own feelings.
Extrinsic feedback (exteroception) - Answers -Info from vision and audition (hearing)
Extrinsic motivation - Answers -Coming from external rewards (money, prizes) or
pressure
Intrinsic definition - Answers -A performer receives is about their performance from
within. Kinasthetic feedback is a form of intrinsic feedback (received via receptors in the
muscles)
Advantages of intrinsic feedback - Answers -Performers can make immediate
adjustments
Extrinsic definition - Answers -Performer receives is about their performance from
outside themselves such as from a coach.
Extrinsic advantage - Answers -Beginners need this from coaches to be made aware of
and learn basic skills and techniques.
Positive feedback - Answers -What was correct or good about the performance