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Diseases/injuries
100
A chemical substance found in foods that is used in the human body.
What is a nutrient?
100
The number of contractions of the heart per minute.
What is the heart rate?
100
Differences between hip joint and knee joint.
What are the type of joint (socket and ball vs hinge), axes of movement (multiaxial vs moves only in one direction) and kinds of movement (flex and extend, abduction and adduction, rotation vs flex and extend, small amount of rotation)?
100
_ are elements in ionic form such as calcium (Ca-2+) while _ are organic compunds.
What are minerals and vitamins?
100
A disease caused by the lack of phenylalanine hydroxylase.
What is phenylketonuria (PKU)?
200
The volume of air in the lungs after a maximum inhalation.
What is the total lung capacity?
200
The volume of blood returning to the heart via the veins per minute.
What is venous return?
200
This is what the sarcomere contains from one side to the other.
What is a light section, a dark section, an intermediate section, a dark section and a light section?
200
Fish oil (cod liver oil), fatty fish (salmon, tuna, eel) and eggs.
What are the sources of vitamin D?
200
A disease caused by vitamin D deficiency.
What is rickets?
300
The number of inhalations or exhalations per minute.
What is the ventilation rate?
300
The volume of blood pumped out with each contraction of the heart?
What is the stroke volume?
300
The differences and one similarity between a relaxed and a contracted muscle as can be seen by an electron micrograph.
What is a shorter distance between the Z-lines, smaller size of the I-band and the H-zone and the same length of the A-band?
300
_ is an important source of energy in Central American diets, _ is an important source of energy in South American diets, _ is an important source of energy in Mediteranean diets.
What are maize, cassava and wheat?
300
A disease caused by iodine deficiency.
What is goitre?
400
The volume of air taken in or out with each inhalation or exhalation.
What is the tidal volume?
400
The volume of blood pumped out by the heart per minute?
What is cardiac output?
400
The difference in blood flow at rest and during exercise.
What is an increased blood flow to skeletal and cardiac muscles and to the skin, a decreased blood flow to abdominal organs and same blood flow to the brain during exercise as compared to at rest?
400
Underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese according to the BMI.
What is <18.5, 18.5-24.9, 25-29.9, 30+?
400
A disease that can be caused by the use of EPO or blood doping.
What is hepatitis or AIDS?
500
The maximum volume of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation.
What is the vital capacity?
500
The oxygen uptake at any particular time.
What is VO-2?
500
3 differences between slow and fast muscle fibers.
What are speed of repeated contractions (slow vs fast), type of work performed (long time - stamina vs short time - strength), found predominantly in (marathon runners vs sprinters), fibers are suited for (endurance activities vs rapid movements), type of respiration (aerobic vs both - IIa or anaerobic only - IIb), blood supply (a lot of blood vessels vs fewer blood vessels), energy release (large amount of energy slowly vs small amount of energy quickly), number of mitochondria (more vs fewer) or amount of myoglobin (more vs less)?
500
Mood swings, depression, feeling cold, growth of body hair, bruised and dry skin, thinning of hair, poor immune functions, etc.
What are the consequences of anorexia nervosa?
500
The over-stretching of a ligament in a joint.
What is a sprain?
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