Topic Test

Which of the following BEST represents the relationship between physical fitness and exercise?

Exercise is a subset of physical fitness.

Identify several factors in the environment that can affect physical fitness levels.

Factors in the environment that affect physical fitness include living area, access to fitness facilities, income level, and social groups.

Explain how hypertension, heart disease, and stroke are related.

Hypertension, which is a higher than normal blood pressure, can lead to heart disease and stroke as it causes undue stress on the cardiovascular system. The risk of developing all three diseases can be reduced through proper diet and regular exercise.

The talk test can be used to measure the __________.

intensity of an activity

Wellness is the struggle to keep all the components of health at their best possible levels.

true

What is the minimum amount of physical activity necessary to achieve health benefits?

20 minutes a day, two days out of the week

William is interested in exercising more, but does not feel he has the time. Write a short response explaining how he can find the time to exercise.

Finding time to exercise can be difficult, but it is important to consider time spent exercising as important time, as important as social commitments, work, and school. Therefore, effective strategies to increase time for exercise include scheduling blocks of exercise time, making people more aware of your exercise time, analyzing your schedule for the best time to exercise, pursuing activities that can be done from home, finding places to exercise that are close to home, work, or school, and finding a person with whom you can exercise.

List the following four activities in the order they would go in the physical activity pyramid from top to bottom. Soccer practice; Homework; Walking 30 minutes to school; Weight training

Weight training; Soccer practice; Walking 30 minutes to school

Describe how exercise can positively affect your environmental health.

When you exercise outdoors, there is a more natural connection between you and the environment. You may also be motivated to change some things in the environment if you exercise in a polluted environment.

Our personal opinion or feeling towards something is called a(n) __________.

attitude

Genetics is the most important factor that affects your physical fitness.

false

Which area of the physical activity pyramid can be most easily incorporated into an individual's everyday activities?

lifestyle

Factors that influence physical fitness include heredity, behavior, and environment.

true

Physical fitness attitude can affect a person's level of physical activity.

true

Discuss the role of behavior in physical fitness levels.

Our behavior is the only thing over which we have absolute control; to maintain good physical fitness, positive choices must be made each day. You may have favorable genetics and a good environment to be healthy, but your behavioral decisions can cancel out any advantage from genetics and environment.