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Physical Education Fitness Study Guide components of health related fitness - flexibility, body composition, cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance components of skill related fitness - agility, balance, coordination, speed, reaction time, and power body composition - the combination of fat mass and fat-free mass, including fat, bones, muscles, organs, and water cardiorespiratory endurance - the ability of the heart, blood, blood vessels and lu...

Physical Education - Fitness Characteristics of Skill Related Fitness - Limited by Genetic make-up. Can be improved with practice. Helps improve performance in sports. Doesn't affect overall health. 6 Skill Components of Fitness - Agility, Balance, Coordination, Power, Reaction Time, Speed. Agility - The ability to change the position of your body quickly and to control the movement of your whole body. Balance - The ability to keep an upright position/posture while stand...

Health and Physical Education The leading causes of illness, disease and death are - not infectious by nature, but rather lifestyle related. Heart disease, obesity, and cancer are all influenced by and result from people's chosen behaviors Circulatory System - the heart pumps blood in this system; blood passes through the right chambers of the heart and through the lungs, where it acquires oxygen and back into the left chambers of the heart where it is pumped into the aorta Res...

Political Science Intro to American Government Chapters 1-4 The authors of your textbook state that politics produces... - Winners and losers. A system in which the market determines production, distribution, and price decisions, and where property is privately owned, describes... - A capitalist economy. In elite democratic theory, citizens should participate in politics... - Only to select leaders. The status of being a citizen, rather than a subject, of a particular politic...

Political Science The Preamble of the constitution stipulates certain purposes of government. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the Preamble as the role of government? - Provide free education to all In the United States political Legitimacy is derived from? - Public sense that the government is acting in accordance to the constitution and on behalf of the people Which of the following defines Totalitarianism? - A small group of leaders that make all political decision...

Political Science 180 American Government What does balancing a ticket for the Presidency and Vice Presidency refer to? - ideology & geographic region Who was the youngest man ever to serve as president? - Theodore Roosevelt Why are National Party Conventions important today? - They are not important except for the acceptance speech Iowa Caucus important: - it is first New Hampshire important primary because: - it is first What do PACs do? - raise money W...

American government and Politics final exam study guide A system of government in which power is divided between a national (federal) government and various regional governments. - federalism A system of government whereby the states govern the people directly, while the national government concerns itself with foreign affairs. State and national powers divided into entirely different spheres-a model of federalism that looks on national & state governments as co-equal sovereign powers...

American Government and Politics In-class activity government - formal institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled politics - conflict over the leadership, structure and policies of governments political efficacy - the ability to influence government and politics citizenship - informed and active membership in a political community autocracy - a form of government in which a single individual rules (king, queen, or dictator) ...

American Government and Politics: Exam 1 Study Guide What is Government? - A social institution that controls the behavior of people What are the Government's main functions? - 1. Providing security (Trying to protect citizens from such harms as unfair business practices, discrimination, and denial of constitutional rights) 2. Serving the public good (A policy or action that benefits the society as a whole rather than a specific individual: laws and regulations) 3. Managing and ...

Political Science - American Government Final In-class activity Civil liberties - Freedoms guaranteed to individuals taking the form of restraint on government. civil rights - Powers or privileges guaranteed to individuals and protected from arbitrary removal at the hands of government or individuals. strict scrutiny - A standard used by the Supreme Court in deciding whether a law or policy is to be adjudged constitutional. To pass strict scrutiny, the law or policy ...