1. What’s up with the weather?
Topic: Forest fire
By: Jiaming Mei

2. Definition-
• Forest fire: an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area.

3. Vocabulary-
Evacuees Conflagration Surface fires
Acres Extinguishing Fuel
Ignited Lightning Campfires
Devouring

4. Causes/Effects
Cause- Forest fire usually caused Effects- Environmental: When
by human or lightning. Human- the fire spreads through the forest
caused fires are started by people it kills the plants and the nutrient
who are careless with their inside the plants that the animals
campfires. Lightning-caused fires eat. Also, there will be more air
are lightning strikes a tree, and the pollution on this worst.
tree begins to burn, with flames
spreading to another trees as Economic: Can be damage to both
worst. coal and national economics can
be just as terrible as the
environmental destruction and the
potential for loss of life.
Social: Forest products would be
destroyed, such as wood, food and
medicines.

5. Map-
• The map shows the occurrences of forest fires in the
world over a 10-day period. The red part in the
bottom of the map indicated places that forest fires
happen frequently due to high temperature , while
the northern part of the earth has less forest fires.

6. Graph-
50 Forest fire numbers of 2010 on the world
45
40
35
30
Number of fires
25
20
15
10
5
0
Countries

7. Support Evidence-
• This data shows the U.S. forest fire hot spot during the period of
2002-2012, occur the map in western part of the country
during the summer months and are caused by lightning, there
are three different graphs indicated many causes, trend of
fire, and largest fires by which locations. The biggest reason is
the occurrence of fires caused by lightning, the number is
close to 50k. Then, the largest fires most occurred in Wallow.

8. Support Evidence-
• This bar graph shows the wildfire activity during years of 2000-
2012. These figures represent annual acres burned per fire.
Obviously, the fire in 2012 was the worst among those wildfires
from 2000 to 2012, which burned more than 500 acres.

9. Prevention
List of the ways to prevent forest fires.
• Smoking should not be done while moving from one place to
another in forest land.
• Clear the area around the burn pile of any flammable debris.
• Attend the fire until it is completely out.

10. Conclusion
• The forest fire can be defined as uncontrolled fire on lands covered all by
timber, grass, grain, or other flammable vegetation. Forest fire can be caused
naturally or by humans. Three conditions are needed in order for a forest fire
to ignite, which are fuel, oxygen and a heat source. For this research, I already
gathered lots of evidence through the Internet to support my findings.
When I researched my topic, I found that lots of natural disasters were able to
prevent from happening. For instance, forest fire is very important for public
safety. Preventing these fires from spreading across large regions is crucial.
However, in fact, many acres of forest fires are burned because of human
carelessness. We must learn all about fire prevention.
Recent research has concluded that forest wildfires in western United States
are becoming larger and more frequent. With the size of the fire, annual high
severity fire will change with the weather for temperature rise. However, fire
trend in forest fire must necessary to improve well environment.
If this pattern continues for the next 100 years, we can expect our climate
scientists to prevent any of this types natural disaster.

11. References
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• Graphic:
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