Fireology

**The whole idea of these experiments is to see if animals get more affected if they are closer or farther to where a wildland fire starts. These are my directions:**
Project Directions By: Matthew 1. Get 40 green soldiers and then make them all the same weight by putting hot glue and weighing all of them. 2. Make a set up for a small scale fire. 3. Place one soldier in the center, one next to the center, seven 1 inch away, six 2 inches away, two 5 inches away, one 10 inches away and one 15 inches away. 4. Have a camera recording the fire to have a record of the fire. 5. Then find the weight of the soldiers again to see how they were affected. 6. Then take a fresh drop of hot glue and look at it under a microscope. 7. Then the same with a charred piece of hot glue. 8. Then take a small sample of hot glue from each soldier that was in the small fire experiment. 9. Then look at all of them under a microscope and record whether or not each soldier had burn marks. 10. Then do the same experiment all over again but with a larger scale fire.

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As seen above in the large fire picture the soldiers in the center were the ones that got most affected by the fire. Although, there were a few weird occurances, for example: five or six of the soldiers gained weight in this particular experiment. Surprisingly the soldiers farthest from where the fire started were more affected than the ones that were in the middle. Most of the farther ones gained weight in this experiment, while most of the middle ones stayed about the same and the really close one went down dramatically in weight. My personal thought at first is that almost all of the soldiers would go down in weight but as already discussed above it was actually quite the opposite.======




 * Small Fire**

As seen in the small fire picture above the soldiers once again got more affected in the center. And once again the farthest ones gained weight, the middle ones stayed the same and the center ones went down dramatically in weight. Surprisingly in this smaller scale there were more soldiers to get affected by the fire than the large fire. I actually thought at first that this small scale fire would effect less soldiers; but what was really surprising was that the large fire was hotter by almost 1000 degrees yet it affected less soldiers. The conclusion is that animals get more affected either really close or really far from were the fire started depending on the size of the fire.