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Wilderness Survival
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Person feels cold/lags behind. Mild - Moderate - or Server Hypothermia?
Stop moving - sit don - relax - think about how you got to where you are and think of a plan for further action.
Dead
Mild
Fat
2. _______ are shorter in the summer than they are in the winter.
Shadows
Poison oak rash
60 degrees
12 hours
3. What are the four cardinal points and inter cardinal points of the compass?
Increases
N - E - S - W NE - SE - NW - SW
Stop moving - sit don - relax - think about how you got to where you are and think of a plan for further action.
Soil bacteria - heat from the sun - water
4. The average apparent motion of the sun across the sky is ____ degrees per hour.
Oxygen - fuel - heat
15
North to South? 8 miles - East to West? 6 miles
Equidistant
5. Sweating is a form of ___ heat loss.
Evaporation
Equidistant
23.5
In the extremities
6. Which map provides more detail - a 7.5-minute map or a 15-minute map?
A 7.5-minute map
Level of dehydration
Moderate
Protozoa
7. The sun is approximately due south at what time of day during the month of August?
Red end
Exercise
Severe
1:00pm
8. Your thirst mechanism is not a very good indicator of your...
8000 feet
17 degrees
Medicinal - edible - useful - poisonous
Level of dehydration
9. Exposure of an area to cool - wet conditions for approximately __ hours is necessary to produce trench foot.
Soil bacteria - heat from the sun - water
Fat
12 hours
Medicinal - edible - useful - poisonous
10. Three blasts of a whistle means ____.
A 7.5-minute map
Help - a distress call
5 seconds
1:2
11. What is the ratio of shelter insulation on top to ground cover?
15 minutes
1)Remove from source of cold and protect 2)Remove all wet clothing and replace with dry clothes 3)Hydrate and maintain blood sugar 4)Have the person exercise.
1:2
Sense of direction
12. __________ kill cryptosporidium as well as Giardia
Sense of direction
Sterilizing
Biodegradable soap
Iodine water purification tablets
13. All others factors being equal - when air rises in a cloudy sky it cools at the rate of __degrees/1000ft.
Soil bacteria - heat from the sun - water
Cloudy = 3 degrees
Not adequately hydrated
Map with trail head marked and planned route. What time you should be home in the evening - and if you aren't back by early morning then call the county sheriff to get a search started.
14. The three forces of nature that work to decompose solid waste are ___ - ___ - and ___.
R- rest i- ice c-compression e- elevate
Soil bacteria - heat from the sun - water
Mountain
Rise or be lifted
15. Fine shivering. Mild - Moderate - or Server Hypothermia?
Mild
Dead
Dizzyness - headache - inability to walk - tingly sensation in limbs
Mountain
16. The mechanism of heat loss that is the most common when the body is at rest is ___
South of west
Radiation
Equal elevation
Conduction
17. Sound - including thunder - travels about a mile in __ seconds near the ground.
Shadows
200 feet
4 miles
5 seconds
18. Down is a good choice as an insulator for...
Wet - rainy conditions
Fresh water fish
Sterilizing
12 hours
19. Humans have very efficient...
Cooling systems
Sense of direction
2 degrees
Dead
20. Searchers usually begin their search for a lost person from what location?
Mountain
Radiation
Cotton
The point the lost person was last seen
21. A 10-percent loss of body fluids results in...
Conduction
Sterilizing
60 degrees
Dizzyness - headache - inability to walk - tingly sensation in limbs
22. You are going on a solo backcountry hike for a full day. Describe the information you would convey to your roommate or friend before leaving - about your hike and the protocols to follow if you are not back by nightfall.
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23. List - in order - the treatment for mild hypothermia.
Shadows
1)Remove from source of cold and protect 2)Remove all wet clothing and replace with dry clothes 3)Hydrate and maintain blood sugar 4)Have the person exercise.
Medicinal - edible - useful - poisonous
In the extremities
24. What is the first core organ to exhibit signs of being affected by hypothermia?
4 miles
Brain
In the extremities
Increases
25. The earth's axis is tilted _____ degrees from vertical.
23.5
Stop moving - sit don - relax - think about how you got to where you are and think of a plan for further action.
60 minutes
Fat
26. The name of the north star is ___.
1:24000
Slow jog
Human made (roads - trails - buildings)
Polaris
27. A hot shower can relieve the itching common to...
Poison oak rash
Magnetic north pole
Heat injury
Examples of bad places of escape from the weather during a lightning storm
28. Shivering stops. Mild - Moderate - or Server Hypothermia?
Shadows
1)Remove from source of cold and protect 2)Remove all wet clothing and replace with dry clothes 3)Hydrate and maintain blood sugar 4)Have the person exercise.
Sterilizing
Severe
29. R.I.C.E
Equidistant
12 hours
The county sheriff
R- rest i- ice c-compression e- elevate
30. It's not acceptable within the LNT philosophy to _____________ with biodegradable soap.
Wash your dishes in a stream
Equinoxes
Increases
Convection
31. A contour line is a line that connects points of ___ ____.
8000 feet
Examples of bad places of escape from the weather during a lightning storm
Soil bacteria - heat from the sun - water
Equal elevation
32. A 15-percent loss of body fluids results in...
Dim vision - painful urination - swollen tongue -deafness - numb feeling in the skin
4 miles
UV radiation
60 minutes
33. Heat loss due to physical contact with a cooler object is called ___
4 miles
Conduction
Internal temperature
200 feet
34. Glucose (blood sugar) is the only fuel normally used by...
Fresh water fish
Brain cells
Mild
8000 feet
35. When the sun is at a bearing of 240 degrees in the sky - the shadows point to __.
Exercise
The point the lost person was last seen
60 degrees
Magnetic north pole
36. The locations of the ______ is not fixed.
Map with trail head marked and planned route. What time you should be home in the evening - and if you aren't back by early morning then call the county sheriff to get a search started.
Thrist - irritability - weakness -dark urine - nausea
Magnetic north pole
Shadows
37. Name the three types of shelter designs
Map with trail head marked and planned route. What time you should be home in the evening - and if you aren't back by early morning then call the county sheriff to get a search started.
Geographic north
Lean to - A frame - Dome
Heat production
38. Every 5th contour line is darker in color. This line is called an __ contour line.
Iron in rocks
Brain
Index
1:00pm
39. Loss of body heat to circulating wind is called ___.
Mountain
Convection
60 minutes
Mild
40. Humans do not inherently acquire a...
60 degrees
Sense of direction
Increases
12 hours
41. _________ pack more energy per gram than carbohydrates.
Cloudless= 5 degrees
Red end
Fat
North to South? 8 miles - East to West? 6 miles
42. High altitude begins at what elevation?
South of west
8000 feet
Red end
Protozoa
43. All _____________ are non-poisonous
Fresh water fish
Poison oak rash
Heat production
The point the lost person was last seen
44. How many 7.5-minute maps are required to represent the same area as one 15-minute map?
4 maps
Lean to - A frame - Dome
Moderate
Polaris
45. A person with ____________ has lost the ability to rewarm on her/his own.
North-south
Moderate hypothermia
UV radiation
Moderate
46. It is not always ok to use ________ as a treatment modality for someone experiencing mild or moderate hypothermia.
5 seconds
Exercise
Cloudy = 3 degrees
Mild
47. Hypothermia is a lowering of the body's ___.
Internal temperature
Severe
The county sheriff
Minimize impact
48. Name the three parts of the fire triangle.
Map with trail head marked and planned route. What time you should be home in the evening - and if you aren't back by early morning then call the county sheriff to get a search started.
Oxygen - fuel - heat
R- rest i- ice c-compression e- elevate
North to South? 8 miles - East to West? 6 miles
49. For maximum benefit - it's best to drink water at a rate of 1/4 liter every ___ minutes.
Minimize impact
Stop moving - sit don - relax - think about how you got to where you are and think of a plan for further action.
15 minutes
Geographic north
50. The boiling point of water decreases __ degrees for every 1000 feet of elevation gain.
Convection
2 degrees
Brain
South of west