Summer Safety
Ticks and Mosquitoes
Summer Activities
200
If you're feeling too hot when you're outside, you want to find _______ and _______.
Shade and water
200
After you go hiking, walking in the woods or through fields with high grass, you should check for what?
TICKS
Ticks can be anywhere on your body so check carefully, especially your legs, arms, arm pits, groin and scalp.
200
Things to be careful of when swimming in the ocean...
Jellyfish, sharks, horseshoe crabs, sharp rocks, strong waves (basically everything)
400
What we drink to stay hydrated on a hot day.
Water, Gatorade, most any fluids.
400
What times of day are mosquitoes around the most?
Dawn (early morning) and Dusk (evening)
400
When you're camping, what do you throw on your campfire to put it out?
Water
600
This is what we spray to keep the bugs and mosquitoes away.
Bug spray or mosquito repellant
600
After you find a tick, should you pull the tick off with your fingers or with tweezers?
Tweezers - you must pull the tick's head out not just the tick's body so tweezers are the best.
600
What should you wear while out biking?
Neon, fluorescent or other bright clothing.
Also a helmet.
800
We should be using this on our skin when we go outside in the summer, even on cloudy days.
Sunscreen.
800
If you have a mosquito bite, what's the best thing to do?
A) Itch it
B) Put an ice cube or cold pack on it
An ice cube or cold pack works best to get rid of the itch.
800
Put this stuff in your arm pits frequently during the summer so you smell so fresh and so clean, clean.
Deodorant
1000
This is something we would wear to stay safe on a boat. Hint: it might be orange colored.
Life jacket.
1000
What is this and what kind of disease can it transmit?
Western black-legged tick and it can transmit Lyme disease.
1000
Are males or females more likely to get an injury caused by fireworks?
Approximately 68% of injuries happen to males...