Wildland Fire - S190 Exam with accurate detailed answers || || || || || || || ||
3 Sides of Fire Triangle - ✔✔Heat - Oxygen - Fuel
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Without one!... Fire goes out!|| || || ||
3 Methods of heat transfer - ✔✔Radiation - Conduction - Convection
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Head of Fire - ✔✔The part of a fire's perimeter that is roughly parallel to the main
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direction of spread || ||
Fingers of a fire - ✔✔Extension of main fire - the long narrow extensions of a fire projecting
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from the main body
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Spot Fire - ✔✔Beyond the main fire - Fire ignited outside the perimeter of the main fire by
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a firebrand
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Smoldering - ✔✔Fire burning without a flame and barely spreading
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Creeping Fire - ✔✔Fire burning with a low flame and spreading slowly
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Running Fire - ✔✔Behavior of a fire spreading rapidly with a well defined head
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Controlled - ✔✔Fire can reasonably be expected to hold under the foreseeable conditions
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South Facing Slope - ✔✔Will have more activity than a North facing slope.
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