AnswersLifetime Fitness - S1Physical Activity Benefits

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

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

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

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flexibility
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lifestyle
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aerobic
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anaerobic
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Describe how exercise can positively affect your environmental health.

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Exercise can positively affect environmental health by encouraging people to spend time outdoors and appreciate their surroundings. Choosing to walk or bike instead of driving for some trips can also reduce pollution and benefit the environment.

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Compare and contrast lifestyle choices that positively affect physical fitness with those that negatively affect physical fitness.

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In all aspects of your life, you should strive to be more active instead of less active. Using this filter for life choices will help to improve physical fitness. Those that constantly choose the less active path will probably suffer from more health-related issues than active people.

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Everyday lifestyle choices affect your physical fitness.

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Physical activity must be strenuous to be effective. Please select the best answer from the choices provided.

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Endorphins are generated in the body during exercise, which leads to better emotional health.

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

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

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

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Physical fitness requires more strenuous activity than exercise.
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Exercise is a subset of physical fitness.
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Physical fitness is the same as exercise.
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There is no relationship between physical fitness and exercise.
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Which of the following is NOT positively influenced by physical activity?

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cardiovascular disease
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obesity
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osteoporosis
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allergies
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Explain why exercise is an important component of good physical fitness.

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Exercise is important because it helps develop and maintain cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and healthy body composition. Regular exercise also supports overall health and can lower the risk of some chronic diseases.

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Increased metabolic rate due to exercise is helpful because __________.

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the body uses more calories for everyday activities
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toxins are removed from the body more quickly
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blood is better able to fight infection
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people with a lower metabolic rate have a higher risk of cancer
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Adolescents require fewer hours of physical activity than adults.

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Where on the physical activity pyramid do sedentary activities belong?

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Based on this excerpt, what did the Māori most likely believe about nature?

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It is a dangerous place where people must fight all the time.
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It is a barren place without food or resources.
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It is a foreign place where people are not welcome.
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It is a place where people feel provided for and comfortable.
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Which details reveal courage as a Māori value? Check all that apply.

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“In subduing Tawhiri, Tū created peace in the heavens and the earth.”
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“In his anger, Tū chopped down the forests.”
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“At last, Tū made nets to capture Tangora’s fish.”
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“Tū opened his mouth and ate his brothers to punish them for their cowardice.”
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“The Māori, the humans who are able to master anything that they decide to conquer”
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Which of the following statements BEST explains why the same exercise program might conform to the principle of overload for one person but not for another?

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Different individuals have different levels of physical fitness.
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Physical activity only leads to increased health benefits when it is above normal levels.
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Bodies adapt to increased physical demands placed upon them.
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The same exercise programs always conform to the principle of overload.
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Which statement most accurately represents Carnegie’s effect on the steel industry between 1865 and 1892?

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Carnegie built a monopoly by remaining focused on iron ore and coke supplies.
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Carnegie was reluctant to change production methods and processes.
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Carnegie stayed with the Pennsylvania Railroad until he opened his own plant and started making steel.
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Carnegie realized that steel was the metal of the future and began to invest in or buy up potential competitors.
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Which statement best represents Carnegie’s business philosophy?

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We welcome it when people’s conditions and environments are equal.
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The law of competition is not beneficial to the human race.
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Competition and inequality are necessary for human advancement.

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