Instruction :
On a backcountry backpacking trip where we expect to cross waterways, categorize each of the following as either 'useful', 'not useful', 'dangerous' or 'neither'.  A chinchilla, a compass, granola, dry bag, seventeen oars, thermite, ten tons of uranium ore

Response:
On a backcountry backpacking trip where we expect to cross waterways, a chinchilla is neither dangerous nor helpful, a compass is very useful, a granola is useful, a dry bag us useful, seven oars are super useful, a thermite is not useful and ten tones of uranium ore are extremely dangerous