wildfires

Question 1

What is the name for plants adapted to thrive from wildfires / are fire resistant?

Answer 1

Pyrophytic plants.

Question 2

Give the word describing plants born out of fire (e.g - seeds released from heat)

Answer 2

Serotinous.

Question 3

What are retardants?

Answer 3

Chemicals sprayed on wildfires to slow down the spread.

Question 4

What percentage of wildfires are believed to be caused by human activity?

Answer 4

90%

Question 5

What are the benefits of wildfires?

Answer 5

Remove harmful insects, diseased plants, open up light to forest floor.

Question 6

What is the fire triangle?

Answer 6

A combination of the components needed for fire - heat/energy, oxygen and fuel.

Question 7

What 3 types of wildfires are there?

Answer 7

Forest,
Brush,
Peatland.

Question 8

What is the ladder effect?

Answer 8

To process where fire from the forest floor spreads to the canopy.

Question 9

What are the 3 levels of fire?
What temperatures do they burn at?

Answer 9

Ground - 540 degrees
Surface - 900 degrees
Crown - 1100 degrees

Question 10

Give a positive feedback cycle from a wildfire

Answer 10

Wildfire burns
smoke creates storm clouds because of quick convection.
Storm clouds start another fire through dry lighting.
plants burn down, generate space for new plants to fuel a later fire.

Question 11

What natural factors cause wildfires?

Answer 11

lightning, droughts, el nino year.

Question 12

What factors made the paradise wildfire intense?

Answer 12

Antecedent conditions
Topography
fuel loading
Time of day (