In the year 2000, more than 225 million acres of forests were burned throughout the
world. A forest fire can have a dramatic effect on the plants and animals that live in a
forest.
• Describe one negative and one positive effect of a forest fire.
One way of controlling how severe a forest fire becomes is to deliberately set small
fires in what is known as a "controlled burn."
• Describe two ways that a controlled burn can benefit a forest.
Name the type of ecological succession that would occur after after a forest fire.