Wildland FIREFIGHTER TEST
Exam Questions with
Complete Answers
A fire shelter protects you from what type of heat? - Correct Answer: Radiant Heat
When are the 10 firefighter orders not obeyed - Correct Answer: Ignorance, Machismo, Apathy
What are the most common injuries on the fire line - Correct Answer: Heat related injuries
What is situational awareness - Correct Answer: 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 - Correct Answer: A change of weather is
the most cause of deaths
What percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen? - Correct Answer: about 21%
What is solar radiation? - Correct Answer: energy from the sun
Of all various weather conditions what is the most important one? - Correct Answer: Wind
What is a lapse rate? - Correct Answer: the rate at which air temperature falls with increasing altitude.
What is the normal lapse rate for every thousand feet of elevation change? - Correct Answer: 3.5
degrees
What is an inversion layer? - Correct Answer: 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? - Correct Answer: The inversion
layer
What is orographic lifting? - Correct Answer: 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? - Correct Answer: 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 - Correct Answer: It burns hotter in the
afternoon
How can a canyon impact your fire - Correct Answer: It can lead to increases in potential for preheating,
spotting, and ignition
Why is it easier to light finer fuels and logs - Correct Answer: Less heat to ignite
What is dead fuel moisture - Correct Answer: Moisture content in fuel that is dead, influenced by
relative humidity temperature and wind
What are the critical topographic features? - Correct Answer: Elevation, Position Of Slope, Aspect,
Shape of Terrain, Steepness of slop
What is spotting and why is it so dangerous? - Correct Answer: Fire is spread to unburnt fuel and starts
secondary fire
What is Torching? - Correct Answer: Fire burns on the surface, but periodically ignites a crown of a
single or a small group trees or shrubs before returning to the surface
What are ladder fuels - Correct Answer: Fuels that allow a surface fire to climb or move into the crowns
of trees
Exam Questions with
Complete Answers
A fire shelter protects you from what type of heat? - Correct Answer: Radiant Heat
When are the 10 firefighter orders not obeyed - Correct Answer: Ignorance, Machismo, Apathy
What are the most common injuries on the fire line - Correct Answer: Heat related injuries
What is situational awareness - Correct Answer: 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 - Correct Answer: A change of weather is
the most cause of deaths
What percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen? - Correct Answer: about 21%
What is solar radiation? - Correct Answer: energy from the sun
Of all various weather conditions what is the most important one? - Correct Answer: Wind
What is a lapse rate? - Correct Answer: the rate at which air temperature falls with increasing altitude.
What is the normal lapse rate for every thousand feet of elevation change? - Correct Answer: 3.5
degrees
What is an inversion layer? - Correct Answer: 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? - Correct Answer: The inversion
layer
What is orographic lifting? - Correct Answer: 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? - Correct Answer: 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 - Correct Answer: It burns hotter in the
afternoon
How can a canyon impact your fire - Correct Answer: It can lead to increases in potential for preheating,
spotting, and ignition
Why is it easier to light finer fuels and logs - Correct Answer: Less heat to ignite
What is dead fuel moisture - Correct Answer: Moisture content in fuel that is dead, influenced by
relative humidity temperature and wind
What are the critical topographic features? - Correct Answer: Elevation, Position Of Slope, Aspect,
Shape of Terrain, Steepness of slop
What is spotting and why is it so dangerous? - Correct Answer: Fire is spread to unburnt fuel and starts
secondary fire
What is Torching? - Correct Answer: Fire burns on the surface, but periodically ignites a crown of a
single or a small group trees or shrubs before returning to the surface
What are ladder fuels - Correct Answer: Fuels that allow a surface fire to climb or move into the crowns
of trees
