Essentials
The number of days you can survive without water.
What are 3 Days?
What is Flint?
You should not do this if you cannot identify a plant.
What is Eat It?
This object shoots off a bright red light that can be seen from very far away.
What is a Flare?
This handy pocket object always points towards a magnetic North.
What is a Compass?
What is Shelter?
The objects placed around a fire in order to contain it and prevent forest fires.
What are Rocks?
Though very small, this food source is rich in protein and relatively easy to find under rocks or on trees.
What are Insects?
The most effective means of visual signaling. It is often recommended to use in a group of 3 when signaling.
What is Fire?
What is West?
Most likely cause of death in the wilderness.
What is Hypothermia?
Small sticks, twigs, or pieces of wood that are used to start a fire.
What is Kindling?
The number of weeks (estimated) that you can survive without food in the wilderness.
Often found in purses, this small object can reflect light to catch the eye of people in passing ships, cars, and planes.
What is a Mirror?
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What is a Cell Phone?
The word used to describe key features of a location.
What are Landmarks?
The only natural source of water that is almost always safe to consume without purification.
What is Rainwater?
A common set-up for starting a fire that a crisscross build in the shape of a square with medium sized wood.
What is Log Cabin Style?
Almost identical to the poisonous "Witch's Beard", this type of moss grows on evergreen trees.
What is Lichen?
This natural object can be used to create large amounts of thick signal smoke when added to a fire.
What are Pine Boughs?
This piece of technology tracks your position relative to the coordinates of latitude and longitude.
What is a GPS?
This tool is ranked second only to a Firestarter in order of wilderness survival importance.
What is a Knife?
The type of chemical reaction that fire is.
This plant often grows in the dirt after forest fires.
What are (Morel) Mushrooms?
This signal is given in Morse Code with 3 dots, 3 dashes, and 3 dots.
What is SOS?
What to do if you are hopelessly lost in the wilderness.