Environmental conditions affecting athletes
Environmental Heat Stress
Heat Related Illness
Environmental Stress
Medical Conditions Affecting Athletes
100
The heat-regulating center of the body.
What is the hypothalamus?
100
Moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
100
Heat rash usually found on infants.
Where is the neck, shoulder and chest?
100
Fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks and chin.
What body parts are most susceptible to frostbite?
100
Inflammation of the appendix, producing sudden onset of abdominal pain and other flu-like symptoms.
What is appendicitis?
200
The release of rays in different directions from a common point; the transfer or loss of heat by or from its source to the surrounding environment in the for of heat waves or rays.
What is radiation?
200
A measurement of moisture in the air based on the difference between the amount of water vapor in the air and the maximum amount the air could contain at the same temperature.
What is relative humidity?
200
The most common heat-related illness?
What is Heat Stroke?
200
What is Frostbite?
200
The other name for sugar?
What is Glucose?
300
A method of heat loss in which the layer of heated air next to the body is constantly being removed and replaced by cooler air, such as by a fan.
What is convection?
300
A device to determine the relative humidity in the air.
What is a psychrometer?
300
Dehydration and loss of nutrients due to excessive sweating.
What is a heat cramp?
300
An estimation of how far away lightning is occurring. The seconds between a flash of lightning and the bang of thunder. Divide this number by five to learn how many miles away the lightning is occurring.
What is the flash-to-bang method?
300
The excretion of too much urine.
What is Diabetes?
400
The body's ability to maintain a core temperature that protects the functions of vital body systems despite external and internal influences.
What is homeostasis?
400
Caused by ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun and can cause skin cancer and premature aging of the skin?
What is a sunburn?
400
Shivering, exhaustion, confusion, memory loss
What are the signs and symptoms of hypothermia?
400
30/30 rule
What is how long activities should not resume until 30 minutes after the last audible thunder?
400
A lung disorder that causes breathing difficulty, wheezing, and coughing, and that can lead to airway obstruction.
What is asthma?
500
Cools the body by eliminating body heat whenever the air temperature equals or exceeds the body temperature.
What is Evaporation?
500
SPF
What is Sun Protection Factor?
500
A guideline of monitoring the color and volume of their urine. Normal urine is light colored. What is not normal?
What is dark yellow and has a strong odor?
500
Holding onto metal items such as golf clubs, fishing rods, tennis rackets, or tools in a storm is not a good idea because/
What is metal is great conductor of electricity?
500
A group of nervous system disorders that involve disturbed rhythms of the electrical impulses that fire throughout the cerebrum, resulting in seizure activity or abnormal behavior.
What is Epilepsy?