First Aid
This simple treatment is used for minor cuts and scrapes.
What is cleaning the wound and applying a bandage?
This knot is used to tie your shoes and secure bundles.
What is the square knot?
The first point of the Scout Law.
What is Trustworthy?
When building a fire, what three materials are used to start and grow it?
What are tinder, kindling, and fuel wood?
Tenderfoot requires Scouts to track improvements in push-ups, sit-ups, and this third exercise.
What is the 1-mile run or walk?
This treatment helps stop bleeding using pressure.
What is direct pressure?
This knot creates a fixed loop at the end of a rope.
What is a bowline?
A Scout finds a wallet with money inside on the trail. Which point of the Scout Law should guide what they do?
What is Trustworthy?
Where should a tent be set up at a campsite?
Away from dead trees, fire pits, or cooking areas on an uphill slope.
Why do Scouts repeat their fitness tests after several weeks during the Tenderfoot requirement?
What is to measure improvement in physical fitness?
This injury may occur if someone twists an ankle while hiking.
What is a sprain?
This knot is commonly used to start lashings.
What is a clove hitch?
A Scout includes a new Scout in a patrol activity so they don’t feel left out. Which point of the Scout Law is this?
What is Friendly?
If you are lost, what is the first thing you should do according to outdoor survival principles?
What is STOP (Stop, Think, Observe, Plan)?
If a Scout wants to improve their mile time, what type of exercise should they focus on?
What is cardiovascular exercise?
The four steps used to treat many injuries?
What is RICE? Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation
This knot joins two ropes of equal thickness.
What is the square knot?
A Scout continues hiking and encouraging the patrol even though it is raining and the trail is muddy.
What is Cheerful?
Why should you avoid camping at the lowest point of a valley?
What is risk of flooding and cold air collecting?
Which muscle group is mainly strengthened when doing sit-ups during the Tenderfoot fitness test?
What are the abdominal muscles (core)?
A Scout cuts their arm with a knife while preparing food at camp. The wound is bleeding steadily. The Scout applies direct pressure for several minutes, but the bleeding does not stop.
What is the next step the patrol should take according to basic first aid procedures?
What is applying a pressure bandage and elevating the wound?
You must tie a rope around a tree to secure a tarp. The knot must:
hold under tension
be tied quickly
be easy to untie after being pulled tight
Which knot should you use?
What is a taut-line hitch?
During a backpacking trip, a Scout notices their patrol accidentally left trash at the previous campsite. Returning to retrieve it would delay the group and make them reach camp after dark.
Which two points of the Scout Law are most directly involved in deciding what to do?
What are Clean and Trustworthy?
You are hiking at 2 PM and become unsure of your direction. You stick a straight stick into the ground and mark the tip of its shadow. After waiting about 20 minutes, the shadow moves slightly.
Which direction does the second mark point toward, and how can you determine north from the marks?
The second mark points east, and a line from the first mark to the second mark runs west to east, which allows you to determine north and south.
A Scout records their fitness test results for the Tenderfoot requirement. In the first test, the Scout does 10 push-ups and 15 sit-ups. Four weeks later, the Scout repeats the test and does 18 push-ups and 24 sit-ups.
Which exercise improved more by percentage, and what was the percentage increase?
What is an 80% increase?