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It destroys Habitats and kills thousands of wild life animals it also damages Towns around the bush and destroys homes and cars it can also kill humans or severly injure them like giving them 3rd degree burns
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∙ 15y agoBushfires cause problems when they threaten homes, property, human and animal lives, and people's livelihoods. They are most common in Australia during the summer, and major fires tend to occur south of the Queensland border, particularly in the hills and bushland surrounding Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
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How does global warming cause bushfires?
Global warming doesn't cause bushfires, but it prepares the countryside for them by drying everything out. It takes very little to start a bushfire if everything is tinder-dry.
What are the problems facing the Murray-Darling basin?
salinity, pollution, bushfires and drought ect...
What weather can cause can cause property damage and even death?
Thunderstorms and bushfires are the ones that cause property damages and deaths
What conditions can cause a bushfire?
There are several natural and man-made factors that can lead to bushfire conditions.Atmospheric conditions that cause lightning storms can result in bushfires. This is when a warm front meets a cold front. Statistics indicate that most bushfires are caused by lightning strikes.The intensity of bushfires is increased by dry vegetation, often after a period of heatwave, together with strong, gusting winds, and absence of precipitation. Droughts and prostrated heat are classic conditions for causing bushfires.A man-made condition that causes bushfires is sheer idiocy. Bushfires are, unfortunately, commonly caused by man's activities, whether arson or unintentionally lighting the fires such as by tossing cigarettes out of car windows, or not extinguishing campfires properly.High winds, coupled with dry air, can cause bushfires. Gusting winds cause faulty power lines to spark and arc, which easily ignites the vegetation into bushfires.
What is weather that can cause property damages and even deaths?
Thunderstorms and bushfires are the ones that cause property damages and deaths
What are the Australian bushfires about?
Bushfires are just that bushfires. Deadly if not controlled or directed, Preventable if managed. Though managing the Bush through controlled burning leads to problems of a different kind it does reduce the spread and scale of the fire. If your looking for more in depth explanation look at CALM Western Australia (Conservation And Land Management)
What are facts about bushfires?
Brushfires can be caused by dead leaves and twigs. Lightning strikes can cause fires. Mankind is the cause of almost all fires.
How many bush fires are started?
There are about 30 - 50 or more fires a year, including bushfires . ---- This figure does not include the innumerable bushfires that occur in Australia every summer. Many years they are just spot fires that may burn hectares of land but cause little other damage. Some years, a large number of bushfires come together to cause immense devastation in Victoria, New South Wales or South Australia.
What are three questions to ask about bushfires?
#1 What are bushfires called in German? (or any language you'd like) #2 Where are bushfires found? #3 What kind of soil do bushfires grow in?
What is weather that causes property damage and even deaths?
Thunderstorms and bushfires are the ones that cause property damages and deaths
How common are wildfires in Australia?
Bushfires, as they are properly called in Australia, are very common, particularly during the summer months. Parts of southern Australia, where the summers can be very hot and dry for extended periods of time, are particularly bushfire-prone. Bushfires occur throughout Australia, wherever the vegetation becomes dried out and easily ignited during heatwaves or drought. A common cause of bushfires is when tinder-dry vegetation is struck by lightning.There have been several significant bushfires that have caused great devastation and loss of life in Australia since European settlement. The Black Friday bushfires (1939), Ash Wednesday bushfires (1983), Canberra bushfires (2003) and Black Saturday bushfires (2009) have been among Australia's worst natural disasters.
When can't bushfires happen?
Bushfires cannot happen during flooding rains.
