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Equipment
Rules/Etiquette
Importance to Scouts
GPS
Grab Bag
100
What piece of equipment should you bring to back up or support your GPS system?
Compass (or map)
100
Why are you not supposed to bury a cache?
There has to be some visible clue to its location
100
True or False. Geocaching activities can be used to assist in every rank advancement.
True
100
What does GPS stand for?
Global Positioning System
100
What's a muggle?
A non-geocaching passer-by
200
Where/how can you track or travel bug?
Geocaching.com
200
When caching, what's your connection to CITO?
Place or look for your cache, carry any trash you see on the way out of the site to a trashcan.
200
How can geocaching activities at troop meetings encourage scouts in teamwork?
Work together to operate GPS, find cache, create swag bag, etc.
200
What's a waypoint?
Different points along the cours that you mark to find your way (start point...)
200
What's the purpose of a logbook?
To record who visits the cache on what day
300
List three things you should have inside your swag bag.
Swag, pen, compass/map, GPS
300
What's the 6-foot limit?
Don't look for or place a cache that is more than six feet out of reach (height, over water, etc.)
300
List two methods of how scouts can exhibit traits of Leave No Trace when caching.
Leaving no trash behind, not taking anything from the environment, no vandalism
300

Regarding safety in planting a Geocache: Which of the following is correct?

Geocaches must be safe to get to

If on private property, obtain permission

If on Public Land, obtain permission

Geocaches are not allowed near railroads,

bridges, school property or military bases

300
Which of the following does not negatively affect how well your GPS works: cloudy skies, nearby power lines, tree coverage, high altitude.
High altitude
400
What is the purpose of swag?
Treasure hunt! Sharing.
400
After you sign the log book and take a piece of swag, what are you supposed to do while still at the cache?
Leave a piece of swag of equal or greater value.
400
How does the National Youth Leadership Training course use GPS?
(For patrol leader) to monitor Teaching EDGE
400
Who developed GPS technology?
The military
400
What does "geocache" mean?
geo = earth; cache = hiding place hiding place in/around the earth
500
What is the process (summarized) of loading a cache onto your GPS?
Log onto Geocaching.com to find cache location, program GPS with coordinates of cache
500
Which of the following is an acceptable location for your scout to place a cache: on the back of an electrical box, in a tree, in a school library, on a bridge.
In a tree
500
What are three things scouts are supposed to do for their geocaching merit badge?
Discuss with counselor (first aid, likely hazards, how to plan a cache activity). Explain Leave No Trace, GPS, caching rules/etiquette
500
What's the name of the Droid/iPhone geocaching ap and what company produced it?
What is Geocaching by Groundspeak Inc.
500

What is the correct way to read a map coordinate using UTM

East then North

Right and Up