Bushfires Glossary Words

What is the term used to describe the temperature of the air or other medium and surroundings in any particular place?

• Fuel moisture

• Ambient temperature

• Radiant heat

• Relative humidity

What is a uniquely Australian word used to describe any fire burning out of control in forest, scrub, or grassland?

• Wildfire

• Crown fires

• Bushfire

• Surface fires

What term describes the amount of fallen leaf matter, bark, and small branches accumulated on the forest floor?

• Fuel load

• Fuel moisture

• Combustible

• Hazard reduction

What is the practice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples regularly using low-intensity fire to burn vegetation?

• Prescribed burning

• Cultural burning

• Mechanical clearing

• Selective logging

What is the term for an extraordinary fire event that devastates a large area, usually specified as more than 1 million acres or 404,685 hectares?

• Megafire

• Gigafire

• Wildfire

• Crown fires

What is the amount of moisture present in the fuel on the forest floor called?

• Fuel load

• Fuel moisture

• Relative humidity

• Ambient temperature

What term describes the practice of removing only some trees in a forest and leaving the rest intact?

• Mechanical clearing

• Hazard reduction

• Selective logging

• Prescribed burning

What is the term for a fire deliberately started to reduce the severity of future bushfires?

• Cultural burning

• Prescribed burning

• Mechanical clearing

• Selective logging

What is the term for heat transmitted by electromagnetic waves, in contrast with heat transmitted by conduction or convection?

• Ambient temperature

• Radiant heat

• Fuel moisture

• Relative humidity

What is the term for a measure indicating how steep a slope is?

• Slope gradient

• Surface fires

• Crown fires

• Hazard reduction