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Wildland FIREFIGHTER TEST| Questions with Answers 100% Correct
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A fire shelter protects you from what type of heat? - -Radiant Heat
- When are the 10 firefighter orders not obeyed - -Ignorance, Machismo,
Apathy
- What are the most common injuries on the fire line - -Heat related injuries
- What is situational awareness - -The gathering of information by
observation or having or having it reported to you
- What does predicted fire weather mean to you on the Fireline - -A change
of weather is the most cause of deaths
- What percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen? - -about 21%
- What is solar radiation? - -energy from the sun
- Of all various weather conditions what is the most important one? - -Wind
- What is a lapse rate? - -the rate at which air temperature falls with
increasing altitude.
- What is the normal lapse rate for every thousand feet of elevation change?
- -3.5 degrees
- What is an inversion layer? - -A layer of very stable air where the
temperature rises as the altitude increases
- On a calm day, why will a column of smoke stop rising and flatten out? - -
The inversion layer
- What is orographic lifting? - -occurs when an air mass that is moving
horizontally encounters a mountain range and is force upward
- What is slope reversal and why is it dangerous? - -When a fire burns and
changes the slope, leading to a change in rate of spread
- What can happen when fighting fire on a south facing slope - -It burns
hotter in the afternoon
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