The Science Of Fire Quiz

1. When carbohydrates, such as flour, are hanging in the air, as a dust, and are ignited by a heat source, what can happen?

They Do Nothing

They Can Explode

They Can Turn Black

They Can Multiply

2. There are two types of trees that actually benefit from a prescribed forest burn? Why?

The Maple Tree And The Lodgepole Pine Tree Need Intense Heat To Activate Spring Growth

The Only Way A Jack Pine And A Lodgepole Pine Can Spread Their Cone Seeds Is Through Intense Heat

An Oak Tree And A Blue Spruce Tree Need Intense Heat To Shed Their Leaves/Needles

The Aspen And The Jack Pine Need Heat For Their Roots To Keep Growing

3. What would NASA have to do with fire science?

Determine Why Fires Start

They Provide Satellites For Global Review Of Fire Characteristics All Over The Us

Determine Where Space Matter May Fall, Causing Fires

Review Satellite Positioning In Regards To Building Fires

4. The organization, IAFSS, encourages research into the science of preventing the adverse affects of fires. What does IAFSS stand for?

Integral Association For Fire Science Safety

Interpersonal Association For Fire Science Societies

International Association For Fire Safety Science

International Agency For Fire Safety Science

5. Firewise is a website dedicated to whom?

Firefighters And People Living In Fire Prevelant Areas

Firefighters And Ecology Services

Firefighters And Teens

Firefighters And Emt Personnel

6. Another name for the transformed area where a prescribed burn has been is?

Burn Scar

Burn Brand

Burn Space

Burn New

7. What is a small fire produced from flying embers from the initial fire is called?

Ember Spot

Spot Fire

Wild Fire

Renegade Flame

8. The heat in a fire causes the fuel to decompose into simpler components. How is that process called?

Pyro-Osys

Pyrolysis

Pyroesis

Pyroisus

9. The four components found in wood are?

Volatile Organic Compounds, Ash, Carbon, Oxygen

Volatile Organic Compounds, Water, Ash, Carbon Dioxide

Volatile Organic Compounds, Carbon, Water, Oxygen

Water, Volatile Organic Compounds, Carbon, Ash

10. What does "candling", in firemen's terminology, mean?

A Tree That Burns From The Top To The Bottom

A Single Tree Or Small Clump Of Trees That Is Burning From The Bottom Up

A Tree That Is Burning And Dropping Dead Branches

A Tree That Catches On Fire At The Top

11. A fire that requires a large organization to stop it and prolonged activity to put it out is called what?

A Platoon Fire

A Project Fire

A Long Term Fire

A Time Bender Fire

12. The products of burning include which gases?

Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Air

Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Water Vapour

Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide, Solid Water

Water Vapour, Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen

13. A fire edge that crosses over a boundary intended to contain the fire is called what?

Fall-Out

Slop-Over

Over-Fall

Slop-Fire

14. In fire science terminology, aerosol is another name for what?

Fire

Air

A Spray Bottle

Smoke Particles

15. An underburn is what?

The Scarring Left From A Fire On Tree Bark

Burning The Lower Part Of A Shrub To Incite Root Growth

Burning The Lower Branches Of Trees To Produce New Leaves

A Fire That Consumes Surface Fuels But Not Trees Or Shrubs

16. How is a fame in a gas burner that is hot, with very little soot, called?

A Measured Flame

An Unsooted Flame

A Premixed Flame

A Token Flame