Outdoor Activities
Scouting Basics
First Aid
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Scout Knowledge
100
Qualified supervision, physical fitness, safe area, lifeguard on duty, lookout, ability groups, buddy system, and discipline.
What is safe swim defense?
100
Repeat the Scout Motto and Slogan.
What are be Prepared and Do a Good Turn Daily.
100
Get the victim in a warm dry place, warm the area with the palm of your hand (do not rub), put the area against your skin (armpit or belly), put the area in warm (not hot) water, get to a doctor.
What is first aid for frostbite?
100
Explain first aid for small cuts and scratches.
What is wash the area with soap and water, apply an antiseptic, and keep the wound clean with a bandage.
100
The symbolic meaning of the two stars on the Scout Badge.
What is truth and knowledge?
200
Swimming rescues are more dangerous than the other types. Explain the 2 other water rescue methods.
What is reaching with an arm, leg, stick or other object. Throwing lines or objects.
200
How we stay safe and protect one another.
What is the buddy system?
200
Explain how to remove a fishhook when you can’t get to a doctor.
What is push the hook farther in until the barb comes through the skin. Snip off the barb with pliers, wire cutters, or nail clippers. Ease the shank of the hook back out through the point of entry. Wash and bandage the wound?
200
Avoid getting these by wearing shoes or boots that fit properly, by changing your socks when they are sweaty or wet, and by paying attention to how your feet feel.
What are blisters?
200
Famous 4 footed long-earred Scouter featured in "Boy's Life."
Who is Pedro?
300
This fabric is good for warm, dry weather, but is bad when wet since it will not keep your warm.
What is cotton?
300
Willaim Boyce is important to scouting because
He brought scouting to America after the boy helped him during the foggy night?
300
Place the injury in cool water until the pain goes away. Let the burn dry then protect it with a sterile gauze pad. Do not pop the blisters and do not apply any creams, ointments or sprays.
What is first aid for second degree burns?
300
Shape a piece of moleskin into a ____________ and place it over the blister
What is a donut?
300
For this merit badge scouts prepare a meal without utensils.
What is wilderness survival?
400
Explain at least 3 of the rules of safe hiking on the highway.
What are hike with a buddy, wear light/bright-colored clothing, walk on the left-hand side (facing traffic), use a flashlight, (if possible) stay on the sidewalk, never hitchhike.
400
The shape should be triangular, with only white and blue showing.
What is the shape a folded American Flag should be in and what colors should be showing.
400
Have the victim lie in a cool, shady place with feet raised. Remove excess clothing. Cool the victim by applying cool wet clothes to his body and by fanning him. It he is fully alert, let him sip from a glass of water into which you’ve stirred a pinch of salt. Recovery should be rapid; if not, call a doctor.
What is first aid for heat exhaustion?
400
The father of scouting.
Who is Lord-Baden Powell?
500
Explain at least 3 of the rules of safe hiking when going cross-country.
What is hike with a buddy, wear light/bright-colored clothing, stay on the trail, use bridges to cross streams (avoid wading if possible), detour around areas that might be dangerous.
500
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
What is Lord Baden Powell's final address?
500
________ fractures do not cut through the skin. ________fractures do pierce the skin.
What is simple and compound fractures?
500
Use a credit card to administer first aid for this injury?
What is a bee sting?
500
Brownsea Island
What is where scout camp began?