Health, Fitness And A Healthy Active Lifestyle Flashcards
How can smoking affect your health?
In the long term it can cause a greater risk of developing diseases such as lung cancer, heart disease and chronic bronchitis.
What is health?
A state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity.
How can alcohol affect your health?
In the short term it can make you drunk with a lack of coordination and vomiting. In the long term it can cause severe damage to the liver, muscles and heart as well as mental illness.
How can drugs affect your health?
They alter the biochemical system when they enter the body. Each drug has different effects yet they can impact you both physically and mentally.
What types of drugs are there?
Illegal drugs, prescription drugs and performance-enhancing drugs.
How can sex education affect your health?
It deals with physical, emotional and social aspects of an individual’s development.
List some things that can affect your health.
Family life education, safety in different environments, health-related exercise and nutrition.
How can personal hygiene impact health?
It can help you avoid certain diseases such as athletes foot. You must wash your kit regularly as well as yourself.
What are some environmental aspects that can impact health?
Social, physical and economic factors.
What are some psychological factors that can affect your health?
Mental health, emotional well being and stress.
What are prescription drugs?
Drugs that cannot be bought over the counter unless you have a doctor’s prescription.
What are performance-enhancing drugs?
A type of unlawful drug that can help to improve sporting performance.
Give some examples of doing exercise in everyday life.
Ride a bike to work, walk, use some stairs is possible.
What is sedentary?
Sitting down or being physically inactive for long periods of time.
What is fitness?
Good health or good condition, especially as the result of proper exercise or nutrition.
What is exercise?
Activity that requires physical or mental exertion, especially when performed to develop or maintain fitness.
What are the benefits from exercising?
Improve body shape, relieve stress and tension, help you sleep better, reduces the chances of getting a disease, it tones your body and improves your posture and it helps to improve the basic levels of strength, stamina and flexibility.
What are the short term effects of exercising?
Increased heart and breathing rate, increased body temperature, reddening of your skin, a feeling of tiredness or heaviness in some muscles.
What are the functions of the skeletal system?
Movement at the joints, support for muscles and vital organs, shape for maintaining basic body shape, protection and blood-cell production in the bone marrow.
What are the bones in the arm called?
The humerus (upper), the radius (joins to thumb) and the ulna.
What protects your brain?
Skull
What is another name for the collar bone?
The clavicle
What are the bones in your hand called?
Carpals (at wrist), metacarpals (in hand) and phalanges (fingers).
Name another bone part from the skull that supports your face.
The jaw bone.
What protects your lungs and heart?
The ribs
Which bone is connected to the ribs?
Sternum
What is another name for the hip bone?
Pelvis
What supports the back?
The vertebrae
What is the pelvis connected to?
Sacrum
What are the bones in your legs?
The femur (thigh), patella (knee cap), fibula (small shin) and tibia (big shin).
What are the bones in your foot?
Tarsals (ankle), metatarsals (foot) and phalanges (toes).
Name the four different types of bone.
Long bones, short bones, flat/plate bones and irregular bones.
Give an example of a long bone.
Femur
What is an example of a short bone?
Phalanges
What is an example of a flat bone?
Skull
What is an example of an irregular bone?
Vertebrae
What are joints?
A connection point between two bones where movement occurs.
What type of joints are there?
Hinge, ball and socket, pivot, saddle, gliding and condyloid.
Give an example of a hinge joint.
Elbow or knee
Give an example of a ball and socket joint.
Hip or shoulder
Give an example of a pivot joint.
Wrist
Give an example of a saddle joint.
Thumb
Give an example of a gliding joint.
Bones in the hand.
Give an example of a condyloid joint.
Wrist
What are tendons?
Very strong, non-elastic cords that join muscles to bone.
What is the cartilage?
A tough but flexible tissue that acts as a buffer between the bones at joints.
What are ligaments?
Bands of fibre attached to the bones that link the joints. They help to keep the joints stable.
What is the main role of the skeletal system considered to be?
Movement
What are the three types of joint?
Freely moveable joints (synovial), slightly moveable and immovable.
What is an example of a slightly moveable joint?
Vertebrae in the spine
What is an example of an immovable joint?
The skull
What is flexion?
The decreasing of an angle at a joint, such as bending the arm at the elbow.
What is extension?
The opposite movement to flexion where the angle at a joint is increased, such as straightening the arm at the elbow.