Knots & Lashings
This knot is used to start and end a lashing.
What is a clove hitch?
For a minor cut, the wound should be cleaned and protected to prevent this.
What is infection?
When cooking a meal, Scouts should not mix utensils and trays to prevent this.
What is cross-contamination?
This adult helps Scouts complete the requirements for a particular merit badge and must sign off on them.
What is a merit badge counselor?
Complete the Scout Slogan: Do a good ____ daily.
What is turn?
This is an adjustable friction knot used to add, hold, or release tension a rope line.
What is a taut-line hitch?
Tiredness or weakness, dry skin and lips, decreased sweating, head-ache, body-ache, confusion, dizziness, muscle cramps, nausea, fainting, loss of appetite, dark urine, decreased urine production, and increased to severe thirst are signs of what?
What is Dehydration?
State the three bins for washing used dishes on a campout.
1. Soapy water
2. Warm Water
3. Bleach/Sanitized water
What is the minimum number of merit badges a Scout must earn to become an Eagle Scout?
What is 21?
This ceritifes you to work with pocketknives, axes, and saws.
What is a Totin Chip?
This knot is commonly used to create a fixed loop that will not tighten or loosen around an object.
What is a bowline?
List 5 signs of heat exhaustion.
What is severe lack of energy, general weakness, head-ache, nausea, faintness, sweating, cool/pale/moist skin, a rapid pulse?
This Scouting principle means leaving a campsite as close as possible to how you found it.
What is Leave No Trace?
Name 5 eagle required merit badges.
What is Camping, Cit. in the Community, Cit. in the Nation, Cit. in the World, Communication, Cooking, Cycling/Hiking/Swimming, E-Prep/Lifesaving, Environmental Science/Sustainability, Family Life, Personal Fitness, and Personal Management?
State the Outdoor Code.
What is As an American, I will do my best to be clean in my outdoor manners, to be careful with fire, to be considerate in the outdoors, and to be conservation minded?
This knot is used to join two ropes of unequal or dissimilar diameters, thicknesses, or materials.
What is a sheet bend?
This condition occurs when the body cannot get enough blood and oxygen to its vital organs.
What is shock?
When camping, you should look for these conditions to set up your campsite.
What is no overhead branches, not in the way of rain flow, flat and level ground, and at least 200 feet from water?
Which of the artillery merit badges requires you to be at least 14?
What is Shotgun Shooting?
This certifies you to carry fire starting devices, build, manage, light, and utilize campfires.
What is a Firem'n Chit?
This lashing is commonly used to join two spars at an angle.
What is a diagonal lashing?
What are 3 signs of a heart attack?
What is tightness in the chest, unusual sweating, nausea, shortness of breath, a feeling of weakness?
For the camping merit badge, scouts must camp this many nights at designated scouting activities or events.
What is 20 nights?
Which of Abby's merit badges that she has taken (NOT ALL ARE COMPLETED) was her favorite? (Rifle Shooting, Archery, Robotics, Swimming, Camping, Entrepreneurship, Fingerprinting, Electricity, Traffic Light Safety, Personal Fitness, Astronomy, Cooking, Fishing, Climbing, Environmental Science, Citizenship in the World, First Aid)
What is Rifle Shooting OR Climbing?
What is 143?