Safety
The knot you need to know to climb safely outside of the Rock Spot.
What is a belay knot?
This park is in the center of downtown Westerly, next to the library and post office.
What is Wilcox Park?
This man set out from Spain in 1492 to explore a route to Asia, but stumbled across the Caribbean Islands on accident. His journeys spread disease and exploitation, and he was able to help build new world maps for Europeans.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This ocean borders the East Coast of the United States of America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
First President and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America
The minimum SPF to be effective at protecting against UV rays.
What is SPF 30?
This river becomes the dividing line between Rhode Island and Connecticut and runs next to downtown Westerly.
What is the Pawcatuck River?
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This body of water lies south of the U.S. and west of Mexico. It was recently renamed, but nothing about this body of water has changed physically.
What is the Gulf of America?
A war in the country that centered around slavery and was divided by the Union and the Confederates
the Civil War
The minimum number of points of contact you should have on slippery rocks.
What are three points of contact?
(foot, foot, hand)
(hand, hand, foot)
This state beach can be found along the southern border of Westerly. It is named after the Native American word for "red fish." It is one of the most popular beaches in the state of Rhode Island during the summer!
What is Misquamicut State Beach?
This man was the first to explore a passage at the base of South America. His discovery of this passage allowed for natural passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This is the smallest and shallowest ocean on Earth. It is also the northernmost ocean, and is covered in sea ice for most of the year.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
This video game is known as the first video game ever created, by a US physicist named William Higinbotham
what is Pong
The amount of water you (the middle schoolers) need to drink to stay hydrated throughout the day.
What is 7-8 cups? (56-64 oz)
This beach lies at the westernmost point in Rhode Island. Fort Mansfield sits at the end of the beach, a relic from the 1900s.
What is Napatree?
This Italian man set out to explore land reported on by Christopher Columbus. His findings were published in Europe, and the continent "America" was named after him.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
This large island lies east of Africa, directly across from Mozambique and the Mozambique Channel.
What is Madagascar?
A period of mass migration to the west that began in 1948 and lasted until 1955, in the search of a valuable yellow mineral
what was the California 'Gold Rush'
This lifesaving device is often abbreviated to AED.
What are automated external defibrillators?
This landmark sits just east of Napatree, on the southern tip of Rhode Island. The current rendition of the landmark was built in 1855, though several have been built and destroyed in the century before.
What is the Watch Hill Lighthouse?
This English man was the second person to circumnavigate the globe. He sailed further up the West Coast of present day America than any European had before him. He "discovered" land north of the San Francisco Bay Area, now the Point Reyes National Seashore.
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
This is the distance between the U.S. and Russia at their closest points.
What is 55 miles?
The amount of successful crewed landings to the moon by the US. Beginning with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11, and ending on 14 December 1972 with Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.
6 successful missions. Apollo 11-17