ICT 6 2Emergency Survival Kit

ICT 6–2Emergency Survival Kit

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When people drive away from their homes, do they expect to slide off the road, run out of gas, or have an accident? Most do not. But every day, hundreds of drivers do each of these things. That is why it is important to carry an emergency survival kit in your vehicle. You will learn more about emergency survival kits on the web site.

You will:

• create a list of items to include in an emergency kit;

• provide a purpose and cost of each item; and

• explain how some items prevent or reduce heat loss.

Emergency Survival Kit

1. On the Canadian Automobile Association Travel Services web site, key the following words into the search engine: survival kit. Then, click on Emergency Survival Kit from the search results.

2. You should be on the page that lists 19 items that the CAA recommends carrying in the trunk and passenger compartment of every vehicle.

3. Use the information on the web site to do the activities that follow.

What Did You Discover?

1. Make up and fill out a chart similar to the one that follows.

• In the first column, list 19 items that the CAA recommends should be in an emergency kit.

• In the second column, describe the purpose of each item. Why would you want it in your vehicle?

• In the third column, identify technologies that are specifically designed to prevent or reduce the loss of heat from your body. Explain how each of these items reduces heat transfer.

• In the fourth column, provide a cost for each item. Visit hardware stores, or check Internet sites and catalogues that sell these types of materials.

Emergency Survival Kit

Item / Purpose(s) / Prevents or Reduces Heat Loss
Note: Not all of the items are designed to prevent heat loss. / Cost
matches and survival candle / • warm hands
• heat a drink
• use as an emergency light / Eating snow as a source of water lowers body temperature. A candle provides enough heat to melt snow. Drinking warm water helps reduce heat loss.

2. Describe how heat is transferred.

3. In Chapter 5, you learned about heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation. Use these three terms to explain how each of the following items prevents heat transfer and helps keep you warm.

(a) blanket

(b) ski jacket