Physical Education Reviewer - Midterm

Dance comes from the German word _____, which means “to stretch or “to drag”.

is the ability of the heart and lungs to work together to provide the needed oxygen and fuel to the body during sustained workloads. The 3-minute Step Test is used to test cardiovascular endurance.

is the amount of force a muscle can produce. The Push-Up Test is most often used to test muscular strength.

is the ability of the muscles to perform continuous without fatiguing. The Basic Plank is most often used to test muscular endurance.

is the ability of each joint to move through the available range of motion for a specific joint. The Zipper Test and Sit and Reach Test is frequently used to test body flexibility.

is the amount of fat mass compared to lean muscle mass, bones and organs. The BMI is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, and is universally expressed in units of kg/m², resulting from mass in kilograms and height in meters.

Founding mother of contemporary and modern dance. Her influence on dance has been compared with the influence of Picasso on modern visual arts, stanvinsky on music, and frank Lloyd Wright on architecture. The first dancer ever invented to perform at the white house and received a medal of freedom.

American dancer and choreographer forefront of the modern dance

for more than 50 years. He developed “choreography by a chance” a technique in which selected isolated movements are assigned sequence by such random methods as tossing a coin.

A dancer and choreographer credited with the launching the modern dance movement in Los Angeles, California, USA and for establishing the country’s first racially integrated dance company. His initial interest in movement was inspired

by native American culture since childhood.

A trailblazing dancer and instructor whose emphasis on freer forms of movement was precursor to modern dance techniques. She developed an approach to dance that emphasized on naturalistic movement.