Certain trees, in fact produced seeds only when fire heats them. If the fire removes thick shrubs and undergrowth the water is spray increases eating other plants and local animals fire also may kill predatory insects and pass that live on damage otherwise healthy trees, which of context clues best points to the correct definition of undergrowth in the second sentence.

The context clue that best points to the correct definition of undergrowth in the second sentence is "thick shrubs."