Boat Safety: Unit 1 (Topics 1-5) Quiz Study Guide

Standard: PEOE.4= The physically literate individual exhibits responsible personal and social
behavior that respects self and others.

1) What is the left side of a boat called?

- Port

2) What is the front of a boat called?

- Bow

3) What is the rear of a boat called?

- Stern

4) What is the right side of a boat called?

- Starboard
5) Maximum width of a vessel
- Beam

6) Main centerline (backbone) of a vessel or the extension of hull that

increases stability in the water
- Keel
7) Body of a vessel
- Hull

8) What is a PWC?
- A small vessel that uses an inboard jet drive as its primary source of
propulsion and is designed to be operated by a person or persons sitting,
standing, or kneeling on the vessel rather than inside the vessel

9) Length of a Water Vessel is measured from ___Bow___ to __Stern_

10)What type of Engine?
- Outboard Engines

11)What type of Engine?

- Inboard Engines

12)What type of Engine?

- Stern Drives

13)Rotating device that turns and powers a boat forward or backward

- Propeller
14)Lever used to turn a rudder to steer a boat (used instead of a steering
wheel)
- Tiller

15)Vertical surface at the back of the hull (Where an outboard engine is

mounted)
- Transom
16)Device used to pump and force water under pressure through a steering
nozzle at the rear of the vessel (Jet Drive propulsion)
- Impeller