Bronze Medallion Questions

Question 1

What features can be found at a leasuire pool that are not present at a conventional pool?

Answer 1

Flumes
Wave machines
Lady river

Question 2

What are the 3 groups of hazards around a swimming pool

Answer 2

Physical hazards
People hazards
Activity hazards

Question 3

Name three common activity hazards found at a pool

Answer 3

Diving
Running
Ducking

Question 4

How can you help keep children safe when you take them to the pool

Answer 4

Supervise them at all times
If needed them provide with armbands

Question 5

Rivers are bodies of water that flow to where

Answer 5

Sea
Lakes
Reservoirs

Question 6

What are tributaries

Answer 6

Supply channels to rivers
Smaller flows or water

Question 7

What are estuaries

Answer 7

Tidal mouths of rivers (where they meet the sea)

Question 8

What is a common hazard of the exposed water bed of estuaries

Answer 8

Drowning or entrapment because of thick sediment

Question 9

What is a weir

Answer 9

A man made canal or over style flow dam used in rivers and canals to control the water level and flow

Question 10

What are hazards of a weir

Answer 10

They create stable and powerful hydraulics
Slip, trip and fall hazard when walking across them

Question 11

What activity creates the holes in the ground that quarry pools form in

Answer 11

Surface mining at quarries

Question 12

What hazards are commonly found in quarry pools

Answer 12

Industrial scrap
Industrial pollutants
Deep cold water
Irregular water beds with sudden drop off

Question 13

What injuries can be caused by jumping onto or swimming into scrap metal in these pools

Answer 13

Cuts and scratches

Question 14

What is the danger of water beds with sudden drop offs in quarry pools

Answer 14

Drowning, you may be unable to swim

Question 15

What natural process can cause fences and paths to fall away at cliff edges

Answer 15

Erosion

Question 16

What hazards can cliffs cause

Answer 16

Slip, trip and fall hazard
Falling rock hazard
Cut off hazard

Question 17

How do cliffs cause people to get cut off from the beach exits

Answer 17

By the flooding tide

Question 18

On the beach how can you make sure that you don’t get trapped be cliffs and the flooding tide

Answer 18

Stay near the exit to the cliff
Keep a close eye on the water

Question 19

What equipment at the beach indicates the wind strength and direction

Answer 19

An orange windsock

Question 20

What colour are windsocks normally

Answer 20

Orange

Question 21

At the beach which find direction often presents the greatest hazard for bathers

Answer 21

Away from the shore and out to sea

Question 22

What factors affect the size and type of waves

Answer 22

Wind strength
Wind duration
Wind direction
Water depth
Seabed characteristics
Wind fetch

Question 23

What are the types of waves

Answer 23

Breaking (spilling) waves
Dumping (plunging) waves
Surging wages

Question 24

What are the hazards of dumping waves

Answer 24

Can break with tremendous force, knock paddlers from their feet and push swimmers onto the sea bed

Question 25

Hazards of surging waves

Answer 25

May cause an unexpected build of water on the beach and beach users can be unaware, knocking them off their feet and dragging them into deep water