Wildfires Vocabulary

What is a drought?

• A period of heavy rainfall

• Extremely dry conditions due to lack of precipitation

• A type of flood

• A snowstorm.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Wildfire

• A planned fire in a forest, grassland, or shrubland.

• An unplanned fire in a forest, grassland, or shrubland.

• A house fire that is burning out of control

• Any fire that is burning out of control

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Oxygen

• The part of the fire triangle that allows for (combustion) burning to happen

• The part of the fire triangle that actually burns

• The part of the fire triangle that provides the energy for the fire to start

• The part of the fire triangle that puts the fire out

Fuel

• The part of the fire triangle that allows for (combustion) burning to happen

• The part of the fire triangle that actually burns

• The part of the fire triangle that provides the energy for the fire to start

• The part of the fire triangle that puts the fire out

Topography

• The long-term weather and precipitation for a large area of land

• A process to reduce the impact of an event such as a wildfire

• The study of the types of rocks found in a given area

• The contour or shape of a landscape

Climate

• The long-term weather and precipitation for a large area of land

• A process to reduce the impact of an event such as a wildfire

• The study of the types of rocks found in a given area

• The contour or shape of a landscape

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Mitigation

• The process of burning an object in a wildfire

• The process of reducing the impact of an event such as a wildfire

• The process of putting out a wildfire

• The process of making a wildfire worse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

Jet Stream

• Huge current of water in the ocean

• Altitude at which airplanes fly

• Huge current of air that impacts weather conditions

• Stream of water put out from a fire hose while fighting a wildfireJet Jet Stream

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Litter (wildfire)

• Anything discarded into the environment by people

• A birth group of fire foxes

• A platform used to carry royalty from place to place

• the layer of dead leaves, branches or other dead vegetation on the ground

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Suppression (wildfire)

• the act of putting people down

• the act of starting a prescribed wildfire

• the act of fighting or containing a wildfire

• abandoning a wildfire to allow it to burn itself out

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2