AY Honors/Wilderness Living/Answer Key
1. Go on at least two weekend campouts during which you learn the skills called for in this honor.
2. Tell five things to do if lost in the wilderness. Know three methods of determining directions without a compass.
What to do when Lost
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Lost
Determining Direction without a Compass
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/No compass
3. Demonstrate three ways to purify drinking water.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Purify water
4. Know three ways to collect drinking water in the wilderness and demonstrate two of these methods.
5. Demonstrate two methods of judging the height of a tree and the width of a stream.
6. Identify four wild animal or bird tracks.
7. Using a compass, follow a course for more than 100 yards (91.4 meters) with three different headings and less than 5% error.
8. Identify in the wild, prepare, and eat ten varieties of wild plants.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Ten edible wild plants
9. Have a personal survival kit of 15 items and know how to use each item.
- Knife
- A knife has many uses in a survival situation. It can be used for making fuzz sticks or wood shavings for tinder, carving wooden utensils, cutting cloth, cleaning fish, etc. Its use is limited only by your imagination.
- Waterproof matches in a waterproof container
- If it gets cold, you will need to light a fire. A fire is also necessary for boiling water (which is one way to purify it).
- Metal cup
- A metal cup (or a tin can) can be used to hold water while you boil it. It can also be used as a pot for cooking food, and as a dish for eating.
- Flint or other firestarter
- A magnesium block with a flint is an ideal backup for the matches.
- Compass
- The needle of a compass points to magnetic north.
- Map
- If you have a map of the area you're in as well as a compass, you should be able to find out where you are and find your way out.
- Watch
- A watch can be used as a compass too.
- Waterproof ground cloth and cover
- This will help you stay dry, and staying dry is critical for staying warm.
- Flashlight
- Binoculars
- Useful for spotting game, rescue craft, rescue parties, etc.
- Whistle
- A whistle can be used for signaling a rescue party. It is far louder than your voice and can be heard even at great distances. Give three blasts on it to signal for help.
- Fatty emergency foods
- Nuts, peanut butter, chocolate, etc, are high in fat. Fatty foods are packed with calories, and if it gets cold, your body can convert calories into heat.
- Food gathering gear
- Signaling items
- Rope
- Many uses, especially in building a shelter, or climbing.
- Emergency blanket
- Emergency blankets (sometimes called space blankets) are very lightweight, foil-like sheets that reflect up to 90% of a persons body heat back towards the person. Cover yourself with it at night.
- Aluminum foil
- Can be used for cooking, or even shaped into a crude cup for boiling water.
10. Explain the necessity in wilderness living of adequate sleep, proper diet, personal hygiene, and proper exercise.
11. Have the First Aid honor. In addition to the First Aid honor, know the prevention, symptoms, and the first aid treatment for the following:
a. Hypothermia
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/First aid/Hypothermia
b. Venomous snake bite
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/First aid/Snake bite
c. Heat and sunstroke
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/First aid/Heat stroke
d. Heat exhaustion
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/First aid/Heat exhaustion
e. Poison ivy and poison oak
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/First aid/Poison ivy
f. Open wound infection
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/First aid/Infection
g. Altitude sickness
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/First aid/Altitude sickness
h. Dehydration
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/First aid/Dehydration
12. Demonstrate two ways to signal for help.
13. Demonstrate the principles of stalking and concealment.
14. Explain how to prepare and provide shelter on the following:
a. Snow slopes
b. Rocky areas
c. Swamps and marshes
d. Forests and tundra
16. Know ways to observe wilderness etiquette and how you can contribute to wilderness conservation.
17. Demonstrate how to tie the following knots and know their uses:
a. Bowline
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Bowline
b. Bowline on a bight
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Bowline on a bight
c. Clove hitch
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Clove hitch
d. Double fisherman's
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Double fishermans
e. Figure eight
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Figure 8
f. Prusik
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Prusik
g. Taut-line hitch
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Taut-line hitch
h. Two half hitches
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Two half hitches
i. Square
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Knot/Square
