What’s up with the weather?Topic: Forest fire

By: Jiaming Mei

Definition-• Forest fire: an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area.

Vocabulary-Evacuees Conflagration Surface fires

Acres Extinguishing Fuel

Ignited Lightning Campfires

Devouring

Causes/EffectsCause- Forest fire usually caused by human or lightning. Human-caused fires are started by people who are careless with their campfires. Lightning-caused fires are lightning strikes a tree, and the tree begins to burn, with flames spreading to another trees as worst.

Effects- Environmental: When the fire spreads through the forest it kills the plants and the nutrient inside the plants that the animals eat. Also, there will be more air pollution on this worst.

Economic: Can be damage to both coal and national economics can be just as terrible as the environmental destruction and the potential for loss of life.

Social: Forest products would be destroyed, such as wood, food and medicines.

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• The map shows the occurrences of forest fires in the world over a 10-day period. The red part in the bottom of the map indicated places that forest fires happen frequently due to high temperature , while the northern part of the earth has less forest fires.

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Support Evidence-

• This data shows the U.S. forest fire hot spot during the period of 2002-2012, occur the map in western part of the country during the summer months and are caused by lightning, there are three different graphs indicated many causes, trend of fire, and largest fires by which locations. The biggest reason is the occurrence of fires caused by lightning, the number is close to 50k. Then, the largest fires most occurred in Wallow.

Support Evidence-

• This bar graph shows the wildfire activity during years of 2000- 2012. These figures represent annual acres burned per fire. Obviously, the fire in 2012 was the worst among those wildfires from 2000 to 2012, which burned more than 500 acres.

PreventionList of the ways to prevent forest fires.

• Smoking should not be done while moving from one place to another in forest land.

• Clear the area around the burn pile of any flammable debris.• Attend the fire until it is completely out.

Conclusion• The forest fire can be defined as uncontrolled fire on lands covered all by

timber, grass, grain, or other flammable vegetation. Forest fire can be caused naturally or by humans. Three conditions are needed in order for a forest fire to ignite, which are fuel, oxygen and a heat source. For this research, I already gathered lots of evidence through the Internet to support my findings.

When I researched my topic, I found that lots of natural disasters were able to prevent from happening. For instance, forest fire is very important for public safety. Preventing these fires from spreading across large regions is crucial. However, in fact, many acres of forest fires are burned because of human carelessness. We must learn all about fire prevention.

Recent research has concluded that forest wildfires in western United States are becoming larger and more frequent. With the size of the fire, annual high severity fire will change with the weather for temperature rise. However, fire trend in forest fire must necessary to improve well environment.

If this pattern continues for the next 100 years, we can expect our climate scientists to prevent any of this types natural disaster.

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