Fires involving electricity
Integrated Science · Grade 8 · about 40 minutes
Why the power must be switched off first, and which agents are safe once it is.
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- 7 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
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- Oxygen: the second side
- Heat: the third side
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- Natural causes of fire
- Human causes of fire
- The classes of fire
- Class A fires
- Class B and Class C fires
- Class D and Class F fires
- Fires involving electricity
- Breaking the fire triangle
- Types of fire extinguisher
- Using an extinguisher safely
- Fire in the kitchen
- The dangers of fire in nature
- What to do in a fire
- Making a fire safety poster