LPC FST 53 Ch 1-8 Questions and Answers
ISO stands for:
Insurance Services Office
The United States has the:
Highest fire death rate of highly industrialized countries.
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LPC FST 53 Ch 1-8 Questions and
Answers
ISO stands for: - answer Insurance Services Office
The United States has the: - answer Highest fire death rate of highly industrialized
countries.
The _______ is used in many countries, but has only been slowly accepted by the U.S.
fire service. - answer Metric Measuring System (SI)
Today we find ____ of household furnishings are made of plastics. - answer 40% to
50%
Infrared imaging can be used to: - answer Seek out heated locations in buildings
including body heat of persons.
What years have been called the decade of conflagrations? - answer 1900 to 1910
Infrared imaging is important to the fire service because: - answer Its use can assist
in finding trapped persons and hidden fires.
Global positioning systems once perfected may be used by the fire service to: - answer
Locate the nearest fire apparatus.
The Emergency Response Technology Advisory Group was established by: - answer
FEMA
The SI system was approved for use in the United States in: - answer 1970
On October 9, 1871, two fires burned out of control. - answer One was in Chicago
and the other was in Wisconsin.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters was formed in an effort to: - answer Get the
Chicago City Council to enforce fire ordinances.
Fire departments in the United States spend on the average ___ of their total fire
department budget for fire prevention work - answer 3% to 5%
NIMS - answer National Incident Management System
The San Francisco conflagration was described as the "double scourge" because of
broken: - answer Gas mains and water mains.
, Ultrafine water mist was developed in response to: - answer The banning of
halogenated systems.
In 1968, the fire service leaders met in _____ to develop recommendations to improve
the U.S. fire service. - answer Racine
In the America Burning report, many recommendations were identified as needing
improvement; however, only ______ recommendations were addressed. - answer
Two
The pattern of conflagrations is: - answer Has been experienced since the first
colonists settled America.
The terrorist attack on 9/11 awoke us to the fact that: - answer Not all fire and safety
problems in high-rise buildings are solved.
The dividing line on a periodic chart divides the _____ from the _______ - answer
Metals and non-metals
Charles' law states that" - answer A gas will contract or expand in direct proportion to
an increase or decrease in temperature.
White phosphorus is air reactive. - answer It must be stored in water
If the vapor density of air is one, what is the vapor density of butane? - answer Less
than one
A catalyst is described as: - answer A substance that is not created or destroyed in a
chemical reaction, but greatly affects the rate of the chemical reaction itself.
Flash point of a substance is? - answer The minimum liquid temperature at which
enough vapors are present above the liquid to ignite.
The elements in Column 1 are sometimes referred to as ________. - answer Alkali
Metals
The process of forming a compound through the sharing of pairs of electrons is called
______ bonding. - answer Covalent
A BLEVE occurs when - answer The pressure inside the tanks exceed the pressure
valve limit and the container ruptures.
The energy absorbed when a unit mass of a solid gasifies directly, without forming a
liquid and with out chemical change, best defines. - answer Latent Heat of
Sublimation
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