All Free Health and Physical Education MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Kidneys
  • B. Heart
  • C. Lungs
  • D. Neck

Explanation: Each adrenal gland sits on the superior pole, or upper surface, of a kidney.

Correct answer: Kidneys
  • A. Adult hood
  • B. Childhood
  • C. Infancy
  • D. none

Explanation: In this broad physical-education classification, the period from birth to about eight years is grouped as childhood.

Correct answer: Childhood
  • A. Autonomic nervous system
  • B. Peripheral nervous system
  • C. Central nervous system
  • D. Sympathetic nervous system

Explanation: The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system includes the nerves that connect these…

Correct answer: Central nervous system
  • A. 3-year
  • B. 4-year
  • C. 7-year
  • D. 2-year

Explanation: Infancy is commonly defined as the period from birth through approximately the first two years of life.

Correct answer: 2-year
  • A. All of these
  • B. Heredity
  • C. Exercise
  • D. Nutrition

Explanation: Growth is influenced by heredity, adequate nutrition, and physical activity, so no single factor explains it fully.

Correct answer: All of these
  • A. Ectomorph
  • B. Osomorph
  • C. Mesomeph
  • D. Endomorph

Explanation: Sheldon classified body types as ectomorph, mesomorph, and endomorph. Osomorph is not one of his somatotype terms, whereas “Mesomeph”…

Correct answer: Osomorph
  • A. 5
  • B. 4
  • C. 2Educational Resources
  • D. 3

Explanation: The nervous system contains two principal cell categories: neurons, which transmit nerve signals, and neuroglia or glial cells, which…

Correct answer: 2Educational Resources
  • A. Medulla
  • B. Kidney
  • C. Adrenal gland
  • D. Pancreas

Explanation: The pancreas is both a digestive organ and an endocrine gland, producing digestive enzymes as well as hormones such as insulin.

Correct answer: Pancreas
  • A. CNS
  • B. SNS
  • C. PNS
  • D. None

Explanation: The sympathetic nervous system activates the fight-or-flight response by increasing heart rate, breathing, and alertness during…

Correct answer: SNS
  • A. Sansation
  • B. Afferent
  • C. motor fibres
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Motor, or efferent, fibres carry commands away from the central nervous system to muscles and glands.

Correct answer: motor fibres
  • A. Chronologically age
  • B. Anatomical age
  • C. Psychology age
  • D. Birth age

Explanation: Chronological age is calculated from a person's date of birth and is expressed in years, months, and days.

Correct answer: Chronologically age
  • A. Childhood
  • B. Puberty
  • C. Adolescents
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Puberty is the developmental period in which hormonal changes produce sexual maturation and rapid physical growth, commonly beginning…

Correct answer: Puberty
  • A. Glucose
  • B. Thyroxin
  • C. Insulin
  • D. Non-Apinefreen

Explanation: Insulin lowers blood glucose by helping body cells take up glucose and by promoting its storage as glycogen.

Correct answer: Insulin
  • A. Wide
  • B. Outside base of support
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  • D. Over base of support

Explanation: For stable balance, the centre of gravity should remain vertically over the base of support.

Correct answer: Over base of support
  • A. ATP.
  • B. phosphocreatine.
  • C. glucose.
  • D. ADP.

Explanation: ATP is the cell's immediate usable energy currency, releasing energy when its terminal phosphate bond is broken.

Correct answer: ATP.
  • A. Kreb's cycle
  • B. Mitochondria
  • C. Oxygen system
  • D. Electron transfer systemSend Money Overseas

Explanation: Mitochondria are organelles where aerobic respiration produces most cellular ATP.

Correct answer: Mitochondria
  • A. O2 max.
  • B. Maximum CO2.
  • C. 100% oxygen.
  • D. VO2 max.

Explanation: VO2 max is the maximum rate at which the body can take in, transport, and use oxygen during intense exercise, so it is a key measure of…

Correct answer: VO2 max.
  • A. Fatigue
  • B. Muscle damage
  • C. Nausea
  • D. None; it is an advantage

Explanation: High-intensity exercise associated with lactate accumulation is linked to fatigue and a reduced ability to sustain the workload.

Correct answer: Fatigue
  • A. BMR
  • B. ATP-CP system
  • C. Both
  • D. None

Explanation: The ATP-CP, or phosphagen, system supplies energy immediately for very short, explosive efforts by using stored ATP and phosphocreatine.

Correct answer: ATP-CP system
  • A. 12%
  • B. 21%
  • C. 12%
  • D. 11%

Explanation: Inspired air contains about 21% oxygen, while expired air contains roughly 16% oxygen because the body uses part of it.

Correct answer: 21%