Troop 361 - Fire Building

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