Can You Handle the Heat? Take The Science of Fire Trivia!
1.
Why does smoke rise in a room, therefore making it difficult to breath while standing upright?
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Hot Gases Are Lighter Than Air
2.
The face mask and equipment firemen use to fight fires is known by what acronym?
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Scba
3.
How would a thermal-imaging camera help a fireman?
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He Would Be Able To See Through Smoke And To Find Other Fire Breakouts
4.
A fire triangle consists of what?
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Fuel, Oxygen, Heat
5.
What three components are needed in order to produce fire?
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Heat, Fuel, Oxygen
6.
Carbon Dioxide, often given off in a fire, is comprised of what?
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One Carbon And Two Oxygens
7.
When matter burns, it undergoes what change?
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An Energy Transfer
8.
When heat is transferred via a burn from a hot oven, how is it called?
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Conduction
9.
What is the device called that can help firemen detect hot spots and know if a fire is completely out?
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An Infrared Heat Sensor
10.
The protective clothing and special equipment used by firemen to fight a fire is called?
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Turnout
11.
A crown fire is what?
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A Movement Of Fire Through The Crown Of A Tree Or Brush Independent Of The Surface Fire
12.
As fuel decomposes into simpler components during a fire, it generates molecules that are very reactive. How are they called?
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Free Radicals
13.
How is the energy that makes molecules of fuel and oxygen move faster called?
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Kinetic Energy
14.
In order to stop a forest fire, a wide strip of land with no trees may be constructed. It is called what?
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Firebreak
15.
When wood has been heated to remove almost all volatile gases and leave the carbon, it is called what?
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Charcoal
16.
A light blue color in a candle flame would reflect what?
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This Is The Hottest Part Of The Flame
17.
Due to gravity, a candle flame would take on what shape in outer space?
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Round
18.
The number relating to the available energy within the flaming front at the head of a fire is called?
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Energy Release Component
19.
In a fire, if you take out oxygen, what will happen?
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It Will Go Out
20.
In most cases the SCBA gear used by firefighters has enough oxygen to last, at the maximum, how long?
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60 Minutes
21.
The acronym, PASS, in regards to a firefighter's equipment, stands for what?
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Personal Alert Safety System
22.
What is the name of the team of people who show up at fires to rescue trapped firefighters?
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Rapid Intervention Team
23.
The primary mission of the Fire Use Management Team is to?
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To Provide Local Land Managers With Personnel To Assist In Management Of Wildland Fires
24.
Smokejumpers do what?
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They Are Trained Firemen That Parachute Out Of A Plane To A Wildfire Location
25.
What is a helitack?
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A Helicopter Base Specifically Designed For Helicopters That Transport Firemen And Water To A Forest Fire Area
26.
Why are fire helmets color coded?
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To Denote Rank
27.
Fire can consume a room in how many minutes?
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Three
28.
When everything in a room reaches ignition and catches on fire, this is called what?
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Flashover
29.
The Joint Fire Science Program was introduced to help fund research about wildland fires and fuels. What year did it come into being?
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1998
30.
Of the seven agencies involved in the Joint Fire Science Program, what are two of the most reknown?
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U.S. Dept Of The Interior, And The Usda Forest Service
31.
The index that describes the above-surface air mass as it affects large and/or erratic wildland fires is called?
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Lasi Or The Haines Index
32.
The landscape-scale research burn in the forests of Alaska, performed in 1999 to review global change due to fires, was called what?
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Frostfire
33.
What would NASA have to do with fire science?
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They Provide Satellites For Global Review Of Fire Characteristics All Over The Us
34.
In fire science terminology, aerosol is another name for what?
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Smoke Particles
35.
Another name for the transformed area where a prescribed burn has been is?
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Burn Scar
36.
There are two types of trees that actually benefit from a prescribed forest burn? Why?
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The Only Way A Jack Pine And A Lodgepole Pine Can Spread Their Cone Seeds Is Through Intense Heat
37.
The organization, IAFSS, encourages research into the science of preventing the adverse affects of fires. What does IAFSS stand for?
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International Association For Fire Safety Science
38.
What does "candling", in firemen's terminology, mean?
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A Single Tree Or Small Clump Of Trees That Is Burning From The Bottom Up
39.
An underburn is what?
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A Fire That Consumes Surface Fuels But Not Trees Or Shrubs
40.
A fire edge that crosses over a boundary intended to contain the fire is called what?
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Slop-Over
41.
What is a small fire produced from flying embers from the initial fire is called?
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Spot Fire
42.
A fire that requires a large organization to stop it and prolonged activity to put it out is called what?
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A Project Fire
43.
Firewise is a website dedicated to whom?
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Firefighters And People Living In Fire Prevelant Areas
44.
The heat in a fire causes the fuel to decompose into simpler components. How is that process called?
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Pyrolysis
45.
How is a fame in a gas burner that is hot, with very little soot, called?
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A Premixed Flame
46.
The products of burning include which gases?
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Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Water Vapour
47.
The four components found in wood are?
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Water, Volatile Organic Compounds, Carbon, Ash
48.
When carbohydrates, such as flour, are hanging in the air, as a dust, and are ignited by a heat source, what can happen?
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They Can Explode
49.
Most forest fires are started by lightning. In a typical day the earth receives how many lightning strikes?
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8 Million
50.
What does NFDRS stand for?
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National Fire Danger Rating System
51.
Fire danger expressed as a rating value that can be used for public information and fire danger signs is called?
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Adjective Rating
52.
A number relating to how hard a fire is to contain is called?
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Burning Index
53.
The PASS equipment for use in firefighting, weighs in at how much?
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Approximately 7 Ounces
54.
Some PASS systems set off an alert if a fireman has not moved in how long of a time?
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30 Seconds
55.
Some newer PASS systems use radio signals to communicate with firemen. What is this way of signaling called?
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Telemetry
56.
The three fire behavior elements are fuels, weather and what?
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Topography
57.
Ground fuel includes what?
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Rotting Branches
58.
An increase in wildfires is partly created by what?
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An Increase Of Residential Building In Forest Areas
59.
On average, in a year, how many acres of land are destroyed by wildfires?
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4 Million Acres
60.
9 out of 10 wildfires are started by what?
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People
61.
In an average year, approximately how many firefighters lose their lives in the line of duty?
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100
62.
Where was the first fire engine was created?
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London, England
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To facilitate communication between rescue workers, when radio equipment may not work correctly, workers are now using what?
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Personal Digital Assistants
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