Wildfires quiz
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Which country's 2023 fire season broke its burned-area record?
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What is a fire so intense it creates its own winds called?
Answer: Firestorm
Why: Its rising column of hot air pulls strong winds in from all around, feeding the flames even more oxygen.
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How are fires that smolder underground all winter nicknamed?
Answer: Zombie fires
Why: They are usually rare, causing 0.8% of the area burned in Alaska and Canada's Northwest Territories from 2002 to 2018, but 38% in one year.
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When did the first known wildfires burn?
Answer: Silurian
Why: That charcoal shows the air 430 million years ago held at least 16% oxygen, the minimum a wildfire needs to spread.
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Where did the 2019-20 Black Summer fires burn?
Answer: Australia
Why: A 2020 study estimated nearly 3 billion animals were killed or displaced, most of them reptiles.
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How do most homes catch fire in a wildfire?
Answer: Embers
Why: Embers lodge in leaf-filled gutters, mulch or timber eaves and can set a house alight after the fire front has passed.
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What is it called when plants hold seeds until fire frees them?
Answer: Serotiny
Why: Jack pine cones are glued shut with resin; a fire's heat melts it, so the scales open and the seeds fall.
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