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.
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
b. Bowline on a bight
Template:Knot bowline on a bight
c. Clove hitch
d. Double fisherman's
Template:Knot double fishermans
e. Figure eight
f. Prusik
g. Taut-line hitch
h. Two half hitches
Template:Knot two half hitches
