MAINE GUIDE REVISION EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔type V pfd - ✔✔specialized rafting vest
✔✔watercraft signaling/sound requirements - ✔✔needs a white light and a whistle
✔✔jet ski - ✔✔wearing a PFD, sunrise to sunset only
✔✔jet ski age requirements - ✔✔16+
✔✔"personal watercraft" - ✔✔motorboat under 14', carries one person, jet power =
jetski
✔✔motorboat age requirements - ✔✔11+, no restriction under 10 horsepower
✔✔snowmobile age requirements - ✔✔under 10 yrs, cannot operate unless on own
private land w/ accompanying adult. 14 yrs and under cannot cross public land on a
snowmobile
✔✔atv age requirements - ✔✔10-16 yrs w/ training course & adult
✔✔yellow buoys - ✔✔milfoil
✔✔white & red buoy - ✔✔hazard
✔✔red flag - ✔✔diver
✔✔latitude - ✔✔parallels
✔✔longitude - ✔✔meridians
✔✔contour interval - ✔✔elevation between 2 contour lines
✔✔magnetic north - ✔✔where the compass needle points
✔✔true north - ✔✔the map (the sides)
✔✔grid north - ✔✔middle of the map
✔✔cardinal points - ✔✔N, E, S, W
✔✔azimuth - ✔✔imaginary line between A&B
, ✔✔bearing - ✔✔direction of travel expressed in degrees
✔✔declination in Maine - ✔✔between 15°-21° (add because we are west declination!)
✔✔"red in the shed" - ✔✔used for field bearings
✔✔bezel - ✔✔rotating piece on the compass
✔✔orienteering lines - ✔✔red lines on the compass
✔✔green on the map - ✔✔vegetation over 6'
✔✔white on the map - ✔✔vegetation under 6'
✔✔aiming off - ✔✔making a purposeful mistake 2° off back bearing to walk in/walk out.
helps you know which way to turn
✔✔triangulation - ✔✔using two or more points to find your location on a map. take a
field bearing, convert to true (subtract declination). draw lines across the whole map,
where the two lines intersect is where you are!
✔✔negligence - ✔✔willing & knowing
✔✔"industry standard" - ✔✔standard practice, protocols, company policy. violation of
industry standard of company policy can be negligent
✔✔implied consent - ✔✔unconscious, underage, intoxicated
✔✔informed - ✔✔"can I help you?"
✔✔duty to act - ✔✔as a guide w/ renumeration, with implied consent, one you start
providing care you must continue until passing off to equal/greater care (otherwise,
abandonment)
✔✔starting a fire in the rain - ✔✔cut wood to get to the middle, old man's beard, conifer
undergrowth, standing dead wood
✔✔emergency food foraging - ✔✔you can eat what rabbits, raccoons, and squirrels are
eating but not birds
✔✔STOP (lost person) - ✔✔S - stop, shelter, hug a tree
T - think
O - observe
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔type V pfd - ✔✔specialized rafting vest
✔✔watercraft signaling/sound requirements - ✔✔needs a white light and a whistle
✔✔jet ski - ✔✔wearing a PFD, sunrise to sunset only
✔✔jet ski age requirements - ✔✔16+
✔✔"personal watercraft" - ✔✔motorboat under 14', carries one person, jet power =
jetski
✔✔motorboat age requirements - ✔✔11+, no restriction under 10 horsepower
✔✔snowmobile age requirements - ✔✔under 10 yrs, cannot operate unless on own
private land w/ accompanying adult. 14 yrs and under cannot cross public land on a
snowmobile
✔✔atv age requirements - ✔✔10-16 yrs w/ training course & adult
✔✔yellow buoys - ✔✔milfoil
✔✔white & red buoy - ✔✔hazard
✔✔red flag - ✔✔diver
✔✔latitude - ✔✔parallels
✔✔longitude - ✔✔meridians
✔✔contour interval - ✔✔elevation between 2 contour lines
✔✔magnetic north - ✔✔where the compass needle points
✔✔true north - ✔✔the map (the sides)
✔✔grid north - ✔✔middle of the map
✔✔cardinal points - ✔✔N, E, S, W
✔✔azimuth - ✔✔imaginary line between A&B
, ✔✔bearing - ✔✔direction of travel expressed in degrees
✔✔declination in Maine - ✔✔between 15°-21° (add because we are west declination!)
✔✔"red in the shed" - ✔✔used for field bearings
✔✔bezel - ✔✔rotating piece on the compass
✔✔orienteering lines - ✔✔red lines on the compass
✔✔green on the map - ✔✔vegetation over 6'
✔✔white on the map - ✔✔vegetation under 6'
✔✔aiming off - ✔✔making a purposeful mistake 2° off back bearing to walk in/walk out.
helps you know which way to turn
✔✔triangulation - ✔✔using two or more points to find your location on a map. take a
field bearing, convert to true (subtract declination). draw lines across the whole map,
where the two lines intersect is where you are!
✔✔negligence - ✔✔willing & knowing
✔✔"industry standard" - ✔✔standard practice, protocols, company policy. violation of
industry standard of company policy can be negligent
✔✔implied consent - ✔✔unconscious, underage, intoxicated
✔✔informed - ✔✔"can I help you?"
✔✔duty to act - ✔✔as a guide w/ renumeration, with implied consent, one you start
providing care you must continue until passing off to equal/greater care (otherwise,
abandonment)
✔✔starting a fire in the rain - ✔✔cut wood to get to the middle, old man's beard, conifer
undergrowth, standing dead wood
✔✔emergency food foraging - ✔✔you can eat what rabbits, raccoons, and squirrels are
eating but not birds
✔✔STOP (lost person) - ✔✔S - stop, shelter, hug a tree
T - think
O - observe
