Bushfires

Question 1

3 ways fight fires

Answer 1

Cutting oxygen supply, Removing fuel and Reducing temperature

Question 2

How do bushfires start?

Answer 2

Lightning, deliberate, uncontrolled burnoffs, campfires, cigarettes, unknown, machinery, prescribed burn escapes, public utilities, and more

Question 3

How does fire spread?

Answer 3

Radiation, Convection, Conduction

Question 4

Radiation

Answer 4

A form of heat energy that travels in straight lines in all directions from its source.

Question 5

Convection

Answer 5

The transfer of heat through air, causing that air to rise faster as it heats up

Question 6

Conduction

Answer 6

The transfer of heat through through an object from a region of higher heat to a region of lower temperature.

Question 7

For every ____ of slope fire speed doubles

Answer 7

10 degrees

Question 8

Crown Fire

Answer 8

They have large flames and intense heat which can reach temperatures of 1100 degrees.

They burn from the treetops and spread quickly.

Question 9

Surface Fire

Answer 9

The most common place for fire, it burns things like dry leaf litter, twigs and branches on the ground. Surface fires are the easiest to control and they burn at 900 degrees

Question 10

Ground Fire

Answer 10

Fires that burn organic material in the soil. It’s a slow burning fire which is usually under litter or vegetation. These fires smoulder and burn for the longest time.