This is a tool you can use to find your way when looking at a map.
What is a compass?
100
Only gather these materials from a tree for kindling wood.
What is dead leaves and/or twigs?
100
You should behave in this way when traveling in campground areas.
What is traveling quietly and/or avoid walking through campsites?
100
This animal makes a "eeeeeeek" sound.
What is a screeching owl?
100
When you spot a cool artifact on a hike, you do this with it after observing it.
What is putting it back where you found it for others to enjoy?
200
It is important to carry this when backpacking in an area with no clean water.
What is a water purifier?
200
Never leave brush near open flames. Other conditions that would be a risk for causing a wild fire include _____________________.
What is ____________________. (Examples: open flames that are under low hanging branches, not having a fire extinguisher or water available)
200
Light disrupts the campers by preventing them to see ________.
What are the stars?
200
This develops in animals when they eat human food consistantly.
What is a cankerous sore or goitere?
200
Collecting shells from a shoreline can be harmful because it takes away ____________ from species.
What is shelter?
300
To avoid exhaustion, when backpacking you should only carry ___% of your weight on your back.
What is 25%?
300
It has a life expectancy of about 60 years before it completely degrades.
What is a rubber boot sole?
300
A good way to address your fellow camping neighbors with a problem.
What is _________________? (Whatever is deemed acceptable; ex. kindly waiting until the campers are back in the campsite and approaching with calm voice)
300
This is a backpacker's tool that you put your food to prevent animals from getting to it?
What is a bear canister?
300
This is what you don't take away for fires.
What is _____________ (example: what is live branches)?
400
Durable surfaces to camp on minimize impacts on the land, like rocky surfaces or trails. Name three different areas in nature that would be harmful to utilize.
What is ________, ________, and ________.
400
Materials, such as aluminum and plastic, can release dangerous toxins into the atmosphere when burned, causing a harmful affect on our planet.
What is ozone depletion?
400
Give four examples of things that disrupt the sounds of nature.
What is _____________, ____________, ______________, _______________?
400
How you react when a bear approaches you.
What is standing still and waving your arms (or making yourself big and noisy)?
400
This is why we do not leave man-made structures, like chairs made out of logs and rocks, at a site once we are done with it.
What is it leaves the campsite with a loss of an organic feelings that brings people connections to nature?
500
The advantages and disadvantages in camping in a valley and a hill.
What is warmer in temperature but having wind chills and being cooler but blocking out wind?
500
Certain places near which you should not defecate or dump waste when in nature.
What are a water source?
500
This is what you do when a hiker is approaching you uphill when you are going downhill?
What is step aside and allow them to pass?
500
Wildlife are constantly at risk of being killed and removed from campgrounds when people do these often innocent, yet harmful activities. There are two in particular.
What is feeding the wildlife and leaving your trash out?
500
After you are done camping out in the wilderness, you do this to your site.
What is raking the brush back and scuffing the rocks of ash (other examples can work if appropriate)?