BIOL208 Lecture Notes - Logarithmic Scale, Cool Air
9 Apr 2014
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Biol 208 (january 13, 2014: why, when you go from one landscape to another, the appearance changes. What it can be due to (brainstorming of class): Climate: solar irradiation, important but not the most important, precipitation, weather patterns. Altitude: biome, geographical features attributed to certain parts of the world. Regions are always related to plants and not animals (ex. *plants depend more than environment than animals and animals depend on plants. *animals are rare compared to vegetation: so it doesn"t make sense to classify areas based on rare animals. Climate: weather is what you are experiencing at a certain time at a certain pace, *climate is the long-term average of the weather. How much precipitation is expected at what time of the year? . Used to predict future weather patterns: natural disasters mess up climate records for decades after it has happened.
