Surviving in Nature Test Review

What can a shelter provide protection from when surviving in nature? There are multiple answers. Choose all that are correct.

• Animals

• Weather

• Cars

• Insects

What are 3 essential ingredients for fire?

In the pneumonic device "SURVIVAL", what does the "I" stand for?

Fire is important in a survival situation because you can use it for _____________________.

• making ice cream
• playing music
• watching television
• cooking food, signaling for help, and staying warm

What is the best way to sterilize water before you drink it?

• Boiling it

• Adding salt to it
• Freezing it
• Leaving it in the sun

Water filters remove sediment, debris, and bacteria.

• True

• False

Any material that takes the minimum amount of heat to make it catch fire. Example: Dried grasses, fine wood shavings, lint.

• Tinder

• Kindling

• Hard wood

• Soft wood

Which of the following foods would be considered "Beginner Level" of the wilderness survival food pyramid?

• Berries
• Raw fish
• Insects
• Wild mushrooms

What is NOT one of the 6 items considered most important as you consider your pattern for survival?

• Water
• Food
• Shelter
• Mobile Phone
• Fire

All of the following are ways to find water in a survival situation except:

• Collecting morning dew
• Digging near vegetation

• Digging away from vegetation

• Searching near a valley