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Fire in Australia
>> Place and space/Geography >> Natural and social systems >> Change and continuity/History >> ResourcesYour task as you explore this issue through the National Museum of Australia s display and other resources is: to create an annotated bushfire map of Australia that provides a viewer with ideas of what, where, when and how bushfires exist, their impacts, and their management. You will be given more ideas about this at the end of the you work through this unit you will explore these important aspects of bushfires: What is a bushfire? Where do bushfires occur in Australia ? Why? What effects do they have on people and the built and natural environment? How can they be managed? For what purposes? Whose responsibility is it to manage them? Are bushfires really natural hazards ?INVESTIGATING A NATURAL HAZARD For many Australians summer is bushfire time, a time of threat and the summer of 2003, for example, bushfires devastated parts of Canberra and the ACT.
Testing your knowledge and understanding Look at this map and answer the questions about it. 1 Fires have started at A, B and C. Explain why locations X, Y and Z are to some extent protected from the fires. 2 Which fire — A, B or C — would you expect to burn the greatest area? Why? 3 The fire at A is fanned by strong wind gusts from the south-west.
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