Research using FUSE/ internet sites to help you answer these questions in your book.
** Don't write out the question. Just respond and copy the source you used in comments below.
A few sites you may find interesting are:
https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/pages/Results.aspx?s=bush+fires
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather-services/bushfire/about-bushfire-weather.shtml
A few sites you may find interesting are:
https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/pages/Results.aspx?s=bush+fires
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather-services/bushfire/about-bushfire-weather.shtml
1. What is unusual about the timing of the recent NSW bushfires?
2. What month did the fires in NSW start?
3. What other Australian states have had devastating bushfires in
the past? Locate using Google Maps.
4. What are the peak months for bushfire danger in Australia?
5. Why do big bushfires usually occur later in summer? Give some
reasons.
6. List the three factors that contribute to early bushfires.
7. Bushfire risk decreases when one of these factors is removed.
True or false?
8. Describe how dry winters and early summers affect bushfires.
9. Think of three adjectives to describe the bushfires in NSW.
10. What
do you understand more clearly since watching the BtN story about bushfires?
1.There was a dry winter and early summer.
ReplyDelete2.The month of October
3. NSW AND VIC
4. October and more didn't finish
1. The bush fires in New South Wales start early because there is more fuel or trees around them more then where we are now.
ReplyDelete2. It started at the beginning of October.
3. There is mostly more in New South Wales but there is about 1 or 2 or 3 close to Gold Coast and Australian Capital Territory and Victoria.
4. The peak months are December and January and February.
5. Bush fires occur in summer because the sun has a lot of energy that can start burn anything example glass if you put glass under the sun it can make a fire or start a fire and make a disaster.
Another reason is because when it gets very windy and there is another fire the wind can spread some where else and start a major fire.
6. The three things that start early bush fires are fuel load, early summer and dry winter.
7. I think TRUE and FALSE because if they were not all there they would not be as bad but if one is just going to go it would kind of be the same.
8. Dry winters affect bush fires because all the trees get dry and leaves, branches and sticks fall off trees.
Early summer affects bush fires because in winter or spring or autumn months it gets hot when it is suppose to be a little cold.
9. I would describe bush fires in New South Wales dangerous, scary, bad and hot.
10. I understood the three factors and what they were.
Source for number 2: http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-weather-and-the-seasons
Source for number 3: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/nsw-fires-residents-evacuate
Tayla, Fantastic responses. I have similar thoughts about #7, however, the history of such big bush fires suggest that if one factor is removed, the chances of the fire occuring decrease.
ReplyDeleteI am very proud that you took the time to complete this task