GCSE Effects of Exercise

During exercise, your breathing rate increased in order to accommodate:

• Increased carbon dioxide needs of your muscles

• Increased oxygen needs of your heart

• Increased oxygen needs of your muscles

• Increased carbon dioxide needs of your lungs

Sweating is an example of what type of effect of exercise?

• Immediate

• Short Term

• Long Term

• All of these answers

Which of these is a immediate effect of physical exercise?

• Increased Heart Rate

• Increase in aerobic fitness

• Improvement in stamina

Short term effects refer to those experienced up to ______ hours of exercise

• 36

• 24

• 24

• 12

Short term effects of exercise are

• immediate and long lasting

• immediate and temporary

• Over a period of time and long lasting

• Over a period of time and temporary

Which of the following is NOT a short term effect of exercise?

• Fatigue

• DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness)

• Light headedness

• Hypertrophy

Which one of the following is a short-term effect of exercise on the muscular system?

• Decrease in stroke volume

• Increase in the temperature of the muscles

• Decrease in blood flow from the heart

• Increase in muscle mass

What do the effects of Lactic acid result in?

• Fatigue

• Energy

• Muscular pain

• Muscular growth

What is vascular shunt?

• A hormone released from the adrenal glands

• The rise of the heart rate before exercise

• When blood is distributed to the working muscles and less to the non-essential organs

• A drop in temperature of the heart

As we start exercising, the heart does which of the following?

• The heart rate decreases and beats with greater force

• The heart rate decreases and beats with lower force

• The heart rate increases and beats with lower force

• The heart rate increases and beats with greater force