Health Priorities in Australia
What type of cancer currently has the highest mortality rate in Australia?
Lung
What is the predominant energy system used by an athlete in a 400-metre running event?
Lactic acid
Sport-specific subphases consist of what?
Fitness components
Skill requirements
How many players are on a baseball team?
9
Who is Sponge Bob's best friend?
Patrick star
A local council has decided to install outdoor exercise equipment in a council-managed park to make physical activity more accessible. It has also employed a personal trainer for set times each day to provide advice and instruction to individuals using the equipment.
Which two action areas of the Ottawa Charter does this strategy best demonstrate?
Creating supportive environments and Developing personal skills
A golfer is extremely nervous and shaking prior to hitting the ball. She closes her eyes and pictures herself making a smooth back swing. Which psychological strategy is the golfer using?
Visualisation
Thermoregulation and appropriateness of resistance training are under what dot point?
Children and young athletes
Which country has won the most FIFA World Cups?
Brazil
What is the highest grossing movie ever?
Avatar
Outline TWO types of cardiovascular disease in Australia.
Coronary heart disease is the disruption of blood flow back to the heart. This can cause a sudden blockage to the heart’s blood supply.
Stroke (cerebrovascular disease) is another type of cardiovascular disease and occurs when there is a blockage in the vessels that supply blood to the brain or those vessels rupture and begin to bleed.
Identify the predominant energy system used by a 100m sprinter, and the features of that energy system.
Predominant energy system used by this athlete Source of fuel
Energy system duration
Cause of fatigue
Rate of recovery
ATP-PC or Alactacid system
Creatine phosphate (CP)
6–12 seconds
Depletion of creatine phosphate stores
2 minutes for 100% recovery
Identify four climatic conditions.
temperature, humidity, wind, rain, altitude, pollution
Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals in a single Olympic games. Answer the following:
Sport
Location of the Olympic games
The year
Swimming
Beijing
2008
What is the heaviest animal in the world?
Blue Whale
Identify TWO National Tobacco Strategies for each of the following action areas:
Building healthy public policy
Creating supportive environments
Building healthy public policy
- Limit the ways tobacco industry can influence public
- Reduce affordability of tobacco products
- No smoking indoors, near sports grounds, shopfronts etc.
Creating supportive environments:
- Target communities with high levels of smoking
- plain packaging
- Eliminate remaining advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products
Anxiety and arousal dot point:
trait and state anxiety
sources of stress
optimum arousal
Outline the indicators of readiness for return to play.
Pain free
Degree of mobility
What is the diameter of a basketball hoop in inches?
18 inches
What % of Earth's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere?
90%
Identifying priority health issues dot point:
social justice principles
priority population groups
prevalence of condition
potential for prevention and early intervention
costs to the individual and community
What are the six forms of feedback?
internal
external
concurrent
delayed
knowledge of results
knowledge of performance
Use of drugs dot point:
the dangers of performance enhancing drug use, eg physical effects, loss of reputation, sponsorship and income
for strength (human growth hormone, anabolic steroids)
for aerobic performance (EPO)
to mask other drugs (diuretics, alcohol)
benefits and limitations of drug testing
Name the most successful sports team in history
New Zealand All Blacks
Name all the planets in order from nearest to furthest to the sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune