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Health - Unit 2, Physical Activity and Nutrition Exam Questions and Answers
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Health - Unit 2, Physical Activity andNutrition Exam Questions and Answers
Physical Activity - Answers -Any form of movement that causrs your body to use energy
Physical Fitness - Answers -The ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough
reserve energy to respond to unexpected demands
Sedentary Lifestyle - Answers -A way of life that involves little physical activity
Osteoporosis - Answers -A condition charaterized by a decrease in bone density,
producing porous and fragile bones
Metabolism - Answers -The process by which your body gets energy from food
Cardiorespiratory Endurance - Answers -The ability of the heart, lungs, and blood
vessels to utilize and send fuel and oxygen to the body's tissues during long periods of
mederate-to-vigorous activity
Muscular Strength - Answers -The ammount of force a muscle can exert
Muscle Endurance - Answers -The ability of the muscles to perform physical tasks over
a period of time without becoming fatigued
Flexibility - Answers -The ability to move a body part through a full range of motion
Body Composition - Answers -The ratio of body fat to lean body tissue, including
muscle, bone, water, and connective tissue such as ligimanets, cartilage, and tendons
Exercise - Answers -Purposeful physical activity that is planned, structeured, and
repetitive and that improves or maintians personal fitness
Aerobic Exercise - Answers -Any activity that uses large muscle groups , is rhythmic in
nature, and can be maintained continuously for atleast 10 munutes three times a day or
for 20 to 30 minutes at one time
Anaerobic Exercise - Answers -Intense short bursts of activity in which the muscles
work so hard that they produce energy withough using oxygen
Overload - Answers -Working the body harder than it is normally worked
, Progression - Answers -The gradual increase in overload nesscary to atchive higher
levels of fitness
Specificity - Answers -Paticular exercises and activities improve paraticular areas of
health-related fitness
Warm-Up - Answers -An activity that prepares the muscles for work
Workout - Answers -The part of an exercise program when the activity is performed at
its highest peak
F.I.T.T - Answers -Frequency, Intensity, Time/Duration, Type of activity
Cool-Down - Answers -An activity that prepares the muscles to return to a resting state
Resting Heart Rate - Answers -The number of times your heart beats in one minute
when you are not active
Training Program - Answers -A program of formalized physical preparation for
involvment in a sport or another physical activity
Hydration - Answers -Taking in fluids so that the body functions properly
Anabolic Steroids - Answers -Synthedic substances that are similar to the male
hormone testosterone
Health Screening - Answers -A search or check for diseases or disorders that an
individual would otherwise not have knowledge f or seek help for
Overexertion - Answers -overworking the body
Heat Cramps - Answers -muscle spasms that result from a loss of marge ammounts of
salt and water through perspiration
Heatstroke - Answers -A condition in which the body loses the ability to rid itself of
excessive heat through perspiration
Frostbite - Answers -A condition that results when body tissues become frozen
Hypothermia - Answers -A condition in which body temperature becomes dangerously
low
Muscle Cramp - Answers -A spasm or sudden tightening of a muscle
Strain - Answers -A condition resulting from damaging a muscle or tendon
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