Chapter 11: Health, Wellness & Fitness Assessments

Question 1

Contraindication

Answer 1

When a medication, procedure, or exercise should be avoided due to being harmful.

Question 2

Thermoregulation

Answer 2

When body maintains constant internal temperature like sweating to cool the body and shivering to warm the body.

Question 3

Systolic Blood Pressure

Answer 3

Pressure in arteries when the heart is contracting.

Question 4

Diastolic Blood Pressure

Answer 4

Pressure in arteries when heart is at rest or between beats.

Question 5

Four-site Durnin–Womersley protocol

Answer 5

Biceps, triceps, subscapular, suprailiac.

Question 6

Archimedes’ Principle

Answer 6

Volume of water replaced by an object is equivalent to the volume of an object fully in water.

Question 7

Jackson and Pollock 7-Site Protocol

Answer 7

Chest, mid-axillary, subscapular, triceps, abdomen, suprailiac, thigh.

Question 8

Jackson and Pollock 3-Site Protocol

Answer 8

Male: Chest, abdomen, thigh.
Female: Triceps, suprailiac, thigh.