Orienteering quiz

What is Orienteering

• Long and miserable hikes

• Flying ships across a lake

• Taking bearings in unfamiliar location

• Using a map and compass to navigate to control points

What do the blue lines indicate?

• land

• Marsh

• Pond

• Atlantic Ocean

Which arrow indicates North on a compass

• Don't know, have to take the Orienteering MB first

• The stationary arrow at the top of the compass

• That red one

• The Magnetically North attracted Arrow (red)

What is declination on a map

• The year an orienteering map was drafted

• The difference in degrees between true North and Magnetic North

• The year a contour map was drafted

• The difficulty rating of certain maps

How can one find their location on a map on an orienteering course

• Triangulation

• Fine Orienteering

• Google maps

• Rough Orienteering

What are these lines?

• Wind patterns

• map decorations, they look kinda pretty

• Contour lines

• Map border

How many points are there on a compass

• 0

• 4

• 12

• 16

What's that turny part of the compass around the needle(it has degrees on it, it's not the needle)

• Entire compass

• Bezel

• map

• True North

What is True north based on

• The turny arrow on the compass

• Magnetic north

• Earth's axis

• The difference between Fine and Rough orienteering

Which of the symbols wasn't listed in the symbols slideshow

• Thicket

• Clearing

• International control description symbols

  (every symbol in that section)

• St. Mary Magdalen Church parking lot

• Lake