EASE Physiology Quiz

This Quiz will help you determine if your academic knowledge is strong enough to participate in a EASE / PADI IDC (Instructor Development Course) or a CDC (Career Development Course). Upon SUBMITTING the answers, the quiz will be reviewed by an EASE Course Director, and will automatically give you a score. Use this quiz to study the academic areas you have done poorly in. Being prepared is very important, by studying the required course manuals prior to the IDC and IE will assure your passing.

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1. Hypoxia means?
Too much carbon dioxide

2. Barotrauma refers to what type of injury?
Sinus Injury

3. What is hypercapnia?
Lack of oxygen

4. A diver experiencing a reverse block if not alleviated could cause what type of injury upon surfacing?
Decompression sickness

5. Oxygen is beneficial to a diver experiencing symptoms of decompression illness because it provides oxygen starved tissues with oxygen, can reduce swelling and helps to eliminate nitrogen in the blood stream by providing a pressure gradient between the nitrogen and the oxygen ?
True

6. A tight fitting wet suit hood could cause a condition known as ________?
Squeeze of the sinus

7. What substance in the blood carries oxygen and carbon monoxide (if contaminated) to the tissues?
Plasma

8. To alleviate hypothermia, a diver just needs to swim faster?
True

9. Excessive hyperventilation can cause what condition on a breath-hold dive?
Dizziness

10. A diver can become supersaturated with nitrogen at depth and experience symptoms of decompression sickness while at his deepsest level?
True