GEO 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homo Sapiens, Biome, Ocean Current
10 Nov 2017
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***two laws of thermology: energy cannot be created or destroyed. In a vacuum things will go from high disorder to low disorder to reach equilibrium. Introduction: cycle and patterns, terrestrial flora and fauna, biological conservation, case study: adk aquatic invasion, edward wilson zoology. Is the study of the geographical distribution (space) of organisms, their habitats (ecological biography), and the historical (time) and biological factors which produced them (historical geography) Or field work in exotic location: diversity of species in the tropics. Biogeography: present = ecological biogeography, landscape (30% of the earth in land a(cid:374)d it"s ou(cid:396) fo(cid:272)us(cid:895, geology and brown water, soil, water (70%) If a theory has withstood the severest empirical tests, then it is considered corroborated but can never be proven true. Methods of bio: field bases, descriptive document ranges of species, process driven examine the processes of a system, conceptual (aka holistic) using theoretical models, experimental (reductionist) manipulating the system to test hypothesis.
