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WorksheetsTroop 361 - Fire Building
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is a campfire?
An open-air fire used in a house.
An open-air fire used in a camp.
A no-air fire used in a camp.
An fire used to burn down a forest.
Which is not a use for a campfire?
To warm you up.
To cook, heat, or clean your food or water.
To burn off your hair.
To dry your clothes.
Why can a campfire be harmful to the environment?
Campfires can create smoke that can attract mosquitoes.
Campfires can melt the ground and trap animals underneath.
Campfires can sterilize soil, burn organic matter, and char the ground.
Campfires can burn fish that fly over the fire.
How do you build a campfire?
Throw a rock to create a hole. Pour gasoline into the hole. Catch a shooting star to light your fire.
Make a safe fire site. Gather tinder, kindling, and fuel wood. Lay the fire. Light the fire.
Make a snow angel. Pick leaves off the greenest tree you can find. Clap your hands to create fire.
Pick a location under a boulder to protect your fire from rain. Use a shovel to dig at least 2 feet in the ground. Make a teepee, and use matches to light the fire.
How do you make a safe fire site? This may have multiple answers.
Use the designated fire sites.
There is no such thing as a safe fire site because fire is dangerous.
With permission, find bare earth away from trees, brush, dry grasses, anything that can be blackened, and roots. Use a rake to clear anything that can burn.
Without permission, find bare earth away from trees, brush, dry grasses, anything that can be blackened, and roots. Use a rake to clear anything that can burn.
What is tinder?
A dating app that is fire.
Sticks about the size of a pencil used to start fires.
The origin of the fire sitcom, "How I Met Your Mother".
Something that catches fire easily and is used to start fires.
What is kindling?
Dead twigs thicker than a pencil
Live twigs no thicker than a twig.
Dead twigs no thicker than a pencil.
Twigs called "charcoal" that you can buy from the store.
What is fuel wood?
Rocks dipped in gasoline that will provide your fire with fuel.
Wood as thin as your finger to as thick as your wrist that will become the main source of fuel to keep your fire running.
Twigs no thicker than your finger that will become the main source of fuel to keep your fire running.
False.
What are the things a fire needs to burn?
Wood, People, Food.
Oxygen, Fuel, Heat.
Happiness, Motivation, Skill.
Phone, Wallet, Keys.
Which is not a way to arrange wood for a fire?
Lean-to
Teepee
Forest Fire
Log Cabin
Can a fuzz stick be used as tinder and kindling?
No.
False.
Yes.
There is no such thing as a fuzz stick.
Can you leave a fire unsupervised when it is lit?
No
Yes
What are the two fire buckets we use when camping filled with?
Lava
Dry Water
Dirt and Water
False
Sand and Dirt
How do you extinguish a fire? Do the exercise in front of the answer you select.
Five Squats - Pour water slowly into the fire. Then, slowly dump a bucket of dirt on top of the fire and stir the dirt and embers.
Ten Jumping Jacks - Pour dirt around the fire and add sticks to make the fire bigger. The dirt will melt and extinguish the fire.
Five Squats - Use buckets to trap the fire and remove all the oxygen. With no more oxygen, the fire will have nothing to breathe and it will run away.
Ten Jumping Jacks - Use a fire extinguisher. The chemicals from the fire extinguisher will get washed away eventually.
How do you know a fire is completely out?
You see no more fire.
You don't see any more smoke.
You feel no heat as you lower the back of your hand into the fire.
You politely ask the fire.
