BODY SYSTEMS
This body system is responsible for pumping blood around the body.
What is the cardiovascular system?
This sport is often considered Australia’s “national game,” especially in Victoria.
What is AFL?
This line-system technology helps referees make calls in tennis.
What is Hawk-Eye?
Using banned substances to gain an unfair advantage is called this.
What is doping?
This piece of equipment is used in both cricket and baseball.
What is a bat?
This is the longest bone in the human body, found in the upper leg.
What is the femur?
This animal is on the logo for many Aussie sporting teams and can’t walk backwards.
What is the kangaroo?
This wearable device tracks steps, heart rate, and sleep.
What is a fitness tracker or smartwatch?
This issue affects girls and women in sport and includes unequal pay and media coverage.
What is gender inequality?
This term describes the ability to move your joints through a full range of motion.
What is flexibility?
Name the system that includes bones, ligaments, and joints.
What is the skeletal system?
This Indigenous Australian AFL legend won two Brownlow Medals and became a powerful advocate against racism in sport.
Who is Adam Goodes?
In swimming, these suits caused controversy for being “too fast” and were later banned.
What are (LZR) full-body polyurethane swimsuits?
This term describes the use of drugs to increase muscle mass, strength, or endurance illegally.
What is anabolic steroid use?
This Australian event stops the nation every spring and is famous for horses, fancy hats, and the phrase “the race that stops a nation.”
What is the Melbourne Cup?
This type of muscle is voluntary and helps you move your skeleton.
What is skeletal muscle?
This legendary Aboriginal sprinter won gold in the 400m at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Who is Cathy Freeman?
This technology, often used in golf and baseball, tracks the speed, spin, and trajectory of balls to help athletes improve their performance.
What is TrackMan?
In 2019, this Australian swimmer tested positive for a banned substance, which led to her being temporarily suspended from competition.
Who is Shayna Jack?
This fitness component is tested by the beep test.
What is cardiovascular endurance?
These muscles work in pairs so when one contracts, the other relaxes.
What are antagonistic muscle pairs?
This concept describes how sport helps shape our national pride, identity, and image to the rest of the world.
What is sporting identity or national identity in sport?
VAR in soccer stands for this.
What is Video Assistant Referee?
In 2019, Shayna Jack tested positive for this banned substance, a type of anabolic agent often used to increase strength and recovery.
What is Ligandrol?
This joint is the most commonly injured joint in sport.
What is the ankle?