Geocaching 101
GPS
Hide and Seek
Longitude and Latitude
Geo "Lingo"
100
Geocaching.
What is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking treasure?
100
The device used to locate a cache.
What is a GPS?
100
Waiting for your GPS unit to do this before you start searching for a cache.
What is acquire satellites?
100
The most important line of latitude.
What is the equator?
100
A container that is hidden and contains treasures.
What is a cache or geocache?
200
Who was the father of Geocaching?
Dave Ulmer.
200
G.P.S.
What is Global Positioning System?
200
You must be doing this for your GPS arrow to point you in the right direction.
What is moving or walking?
200
The most important line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
Earth
What does “geo” mean?
300
The two basic tools or resources you need to be a geocacher.
What is a GPS unit and the internet?
300
The term for the numbers describing the location of a cache.
What are coordinates?
300
Two items that are required in any geocache.
What is a logbook and pencil?
300
Lines of longitude and latitude are measured in these.
What are degrees?
300
Is it all right to move the geocache container once you found it?
Only if you let the owner know.
400
The official geocaching website address.
What is www.geocaching.com?
400
The number of satellites your GPS unit needs to calculate your location.
What is at least 3 satellites?
400
Two things you should do after you first find a public geocache.
What is sign the log book and re-hide the cache where you found it?
400
They run north and south but measure east and west.
What are lines of longitude?
500
The year Geocaching was invented.
What is the year 2000?
500
GPS coordinates describe where these two "lines" cross each other on the earth.
What is latitude and longitude?
500
One thing you should do after you return from geocaching.
What is log your finds on the geocaching website?
500
They run east and west but measure north and south.
What are lines of latitude?
500
A person who does not know about geocaching.
What is a muggle?
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