Vocabulary
A group of trees, sometimes referred to as "woods".
What is a forest?
Gives the topic of a reading. Uses capital letters.
What is a title?
We need to know how to fight them and why they occur.
Why is it important for us to study wildfires?
According to the graph, there are more acres of land burned in 2011 than before.
What is the difference between the acres burned before 2011 and 2011?
This state has had many wildfires during the last few years.
What is California?
Refers to the place and conditions where you live.
What is an environment?
Organizes the text into sections. Another word for the section is called a subtitle.
What is a heading or sub-heading?
A lightning strike causes this.
What is a naturally occurring wildfire?
Wildfires can be good and bad.
What is destructive and productive?
Fires cause more CO2 to be fill the air.
How do wildfires cause air pollution or climate change?
Older, fully developed or grown.
What is mature?
Found under a chart, graph or photograph. Gives you information.
What is a caption?
Fuel, oxygen and a heat source.
What are the three factors for wildfires to exist?
The government tries to limit fires or start small prescribed fires to reduce the amount of fuel in the environment.
What are the two strategies to manage wildfires?
This type of text gives information about real events and uses text features.
What is expository text?
Refers to plant or other life that causes damage to the environment.
What is an invasive species?
Gives data, numbers, increases and decreases.
What is a graph?
This is caused by a campfire that is not extinguished correctly.
What is a fire caused by human carelessness?
Fires promote diversity and stability.
What are the benefits of wildfires?
I wear a jacket or a coat.
What do I wear when it is cold outside?
Another word for destroying or destructive.
What is ravaging?
A visual that helps to give information.
What is a picture or photograph?
These are the people needed to fight wildfires.
Who are firefighters?
The U.S. government tried to eliminate wildfires in the 20th century. This had a negative effect on the environment.
How did wildfires become fiercer or more powerful?
Cloudy skies with cool weather usually indicates this season in Miami.
What is winter?