Fitness/aquatics
Nature/outdoor ethics
Hiking/camping
Character and leadership
Tools
100
This is the common measurement used for sound
What are decibels?
100
This popular sport fish can be found in all of the contiguous United States
What is largemouth bass?
100
This is 1 of the 2 main types of camping, the other one is frontcountry
What is backcountry?
100
It is recommended for every troop to hold one of these every 6 months for the scouts to get leadership experience
What is an election?
100
This is an award for scouts who have worked with and promise to be safe around pocketknives, axes, and saws
What is a Totin' Chip?
200
This rank requires you to improve your scores in pushups per minute, sit-ups per minute, back saver sit and reach, and 1 mile run over a period of 30 days
What is Tenderfoot?
200
This is the last clause of the outdoor code
What is "And to be conservation minded?"
200
This non-Eagle required merit badge is helpful in many areas of scouting, especially hiking and camping. It could even save your life
What is wilderness survival?
200
This is the person in the troop who is in charge of maintaining and organizing all of the troop equipment
Who is the quartermaster?
200
This kind of rope is unnatural and, unlike natural fiber rope, can be fused
What is synthetic rope?
300
Swimming and this aquatic merit badge are required for Eagle
What is lifesaving?
300
Since 1939 more than 1 million campers have hiked at this camp in the American Southwest
What is Philmont?
300
This clothing material is fine for warm, dry weather, but once wet it will not keep you warm whatsoever
What is cotton?
300
These four steps can be condensed into the acronym EDGE
What is explain, demonstrate, guide, enable
300
This is a block that you can drag your knife across in order to sharpen it
What is a whetstone?
400
This is the number of weeks required of regular exercise in order to get the Personal Fitness Merit Badge
What is 12?
400
This kind of tree is one of 2 large groups of American trees, broadleaf being the other
What is conifer?
400
This is the meaning of the acronym STOP
What is stay calm, think, observe, plan?
400
This merit badge helps prepare you for school as well as jobs in the real world especially with dealing with your classmates and coworkers
What is the communications merit badge?
400
In this merit badge you use knots to build basic structures
What is pioneering?
500
The rim of a canoe
What is a gunwale?
500
This poisonous plant is harmful only when ingested
What is lily of the valley?
500
This is the amount of space you want to put between any bodies of water and where you dump your soapy water (according to the scout book)
200 feet
500
This can be abbreviated NYLT and is a program for scouts to gain leadership experience
What is National Youth Leadership Training?
500
This is the process of removing extra branches from a log
What is limbing?