University of Houston

KIN 430

QUIZ 14

Question1)Athletic competitions provide an easy way for researchers to compare physical abilities of one age group with another.

•  Question 2

Weightlifting attracts a large number of older athletes, in fact more so than other sports like running, swimming and cyclying.

•  Question 3

Which sport requires extremes of power and strength?

•  Question 4

In order to compete in the National Senior Olympics, participants must be older than age

   .

•  Question 5

All of the following are considered factors that may influence a decline in older women's physical performance except?

•  Question 6

Master athletes raise both psychical and psychological ceilings and shatter barriers of expectations that society has for the aged.

•  Question 7

Athletics is a natural arena to determine how successfully humans can defy the physical

effects of aging.

•  Question 8

The National Senior Olympics began in what year?

•  Question 9

Losses of strength and power in power lifting are greater than losses in the weightlifting events.

•  Question 10

Johnny Kelley ran his         Boston Marathon at the age of 83.