1) Hypothermia is: A. When your surface body temperature drops
below 35oC
B. When your core body temperature drops below 35oC
C. When your core temperature drops below 37oC D. When your surface body temperature drops
below 30oC
2) Who is most at risk of hypothermia?
A. Babies and children
B. Old people and sick people
C. People doing outdoor sports
D. All of the above
3) Why does drinking coffee increase the risk of hypothermia?
A. It doesn’t! Drinking coffee decreases your risk of hypothermia because it is warm
B. It doesn’t! It makes you all jittery and hyper which makes your muscles work harder and keeps you warm
C. Because it will keep you awake and stop you resting D. Because caffeine is a diuretic, therefore drinking coffee
increases your risk of dehydration
4) What are the “umbles”?
A. Bumbles, jumbles, rumbles and tumbles
B. Stumbles, mumbles, fumbles and grumble
C. A rare genetic disorder that makes you more susceptible to hypothermia
D. A subspecies of womble
5) What is the first thing you should do to treat someone with hypothermia?
A. Dial 999
B. Get them to put more layers of clothes on
C. Get them moving to generate heat D. Give them carbohydrates to eat
6) Which of the following will help you to avoid getting heat stroke or heat exhaustion?
A. Drinking alcohol B. Drinking plenty of water
C. Sunbathing
D. Doing plenty of exercise
7) Some of the symptoms of heat stroke include?
A. Disorientation and diarrhoea B. Fits and loss of feeling in fingers C. Rapid, shallow breathing and fits
D. Rash and a chesty cough
8) Who is at risk of heat stroke? A. Women and children B. People who drink a lot of alcohol C. Diabetics D. Everyone!
9) Which is more serious:
A. Heat exhaustion
B. Heat stroke
10) What would happen if a person with heat stroke was left untreated?
A. They would stop producing ADH to get their water balance back to normal
B. The person will get a negative comment C. Nothing. Heat stoke isn’t fatal D. They could slip into a coma and die
Bonus Question: Why are babies, children and older people more at risk of heat stroke?
A. Because they eat more sweets, which makes their blood more concentrated which makes them dehydrate quicker
B. Because they are smaller C. Because they spend longer in the sun shine
D. Because their body cooling systems are less efficient
CORRECT!
• B. When your core body temperature drops below 35oC .
CORRECT!
• D. All of the above
CORRECT!
• D. Because caffeine is a diuretic, therefore drinking coffee increases your risk of dehydration
CORRECT!
• B. stumbles, mumbles, fumbles and grumbles
CORRECT!
• A. Dial 999
CORRECT!
• B. Drinking plenty of water
CORRECT!
• C. Rapid, shallow breathing and fits
CORRECT!
• D. Everyone!
CORRECT!
• B. Heat stroke
CORRECT!
• D. They could slip into a coma and die
CORRECT!
• D. Almost all of it (99.9%)Most of what is in our wastewater is simply water.
NO. TRY AGAIN