2019–20 Australian bushfire season

High school (ages 12+)
Environment & Earth

Name:

Date:

Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/201920-australian-bushfire-season

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. How big is 2019–20 Australian bushfire season?Exceeding 24 million hectares (approximately 59 million acres or 240,000 square kilometers)
2. What is the location?Australia, primarily impacting New South Wales and Victoria
3. What is the direct fatalities?33 people
4. What was the 2019-20 Australian bushfire season called?It was called "Black Summer".
5. When did the fires start and finish?They began in June 2019 and went on until March 2020, with the worst fires in December 2019 and January 2020.

Anthropogenic Climate Change: Changes in Earth's climate caused by human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels.
Ecological Fragmentation: The process by which large, continuous habitats are broken down into smaller, isolated patches.
Fuel Load Management: Practices aimed at reducing the amount of flammable material in forests and bushland to mitigate fire risk.