Feeling Hot Hot Hot
Earth, Wind, and Wildfire
Growth of a Wildfire
Risky Business
Wildfires in the Future
100
Policy to put out wildfires as soon as they start adopted in the early 1900s.
What is Fire Supression?
100
The three components of the Fire Triangle are:
What is Oxygen, Heat, and Fuel?
100
We measure fire intensity by measuring
What is temperature?
100
The likelihood of damage or impact from wildfire hazards
What is Risk?
100
Tools used by experts made available to the public with information about their risk or wildfire.
What are risk maps?
200
Wildfires can have positive effects on their ecosystems. One example of these effects are.
What is seed distribution?
What is increased nutrients?
What is more sun?
What is increased room to grow?
200
If a component of the Fire Triangle is removed the fire will:
What is extinguish/burn out?
200
Observe this graph. The number of wildfires from 1991 to 2022.
What is slight decrease?
200
Anything that has the potential to cause harm.
What is a hazard?
200
One way wildfire models can be used to assess risk to populated areas
What is predict where the fire is likely to spread?
What is determine best locations for controlled burns?
What is test how wildfires behave in different environments?
What is plan evacuation routes for people?
300
Observe this graph. What trend to we see in acres burned? 
What is an overall increase?
300
Wind speed affects a wildfire by
What is spreading the wildfire faster or slower?
300
Out of grass, shrubs, or forest _____ spreads fire the fastest.
What is grass?
300
List one environmental condition used to estimate risk of wildfire impact.
What is vegetation type?
What is terrain type?
What is wind speed or direction?
What is drought level?
300
What drought condition leads to more extreme and difficult to control wildfires?
What is extreme drought?
400
Department created by the U.S. government in the early 1900s in charge of forests.
What is the Forest Service?
400
The direction of the wind will affect a wildfire by
What is pushing the wildfire in the direction of the wind?
400
A wildfire that burns through a forest with fire suppression will a more _____ fire.
What is intense.
400
Technique used by wildfire fire fighters to control wildfires.
What is a fire line?
What is a helitack?
400
The process by which grasses, bushes, and trees grow back after a wildfire.
What is Forest Succession?
500
When a wildfire comes near a populated area this area is considered an area at ____
What is at risk?
500
A wildfire will spread _____ up a slope and _____ down a slope.
What is faster up a slope and slower down a slope?
500
Process wildfire fighters use to clear out dead debris from the forest floor to improve ecosystem health.
What are prescribed fires?
500
When a helitack is used to help control a fire what part of the fire triangle is being affected?
What is heat?
500
A megadrought over many years can actually do what to wildfire risk
What is decrease due to low amounts of fuel growing?