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Forest fire produces a lot of air pollution. Write in brief about the reasons for forest fires.


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Forest is a large geographical area dominated by trees, animals of various species, aquatic biomes and microorganisms. Forest fire is synonymous with disaster. Even before human involvement, natural, low-intensity wildfires occurred every few years to burn up fuel, plant debris, and dead trees. The reasons for forest fires has been listed below

  1. Dry grass in the forest when gets very dry, high temperature helps it to burn which causes a forest fire.
  2. Lightning from the sky can also be a reason.
  3. Sometimes when villagers use fire to ward off animals, it burns the dry grass and results in forest fire.
  4. Friction between bamboos produces heat and burns the bamboo which also results in a forest fire.

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