BIOL 302 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Tropical Rainforest, Tropical And Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests, Sphagnum

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Even when an organism can keep water inside low temperatures in water can be dangerous. Ice crystals can form puncturing and destroying living cells (leads to death or organ failure) Elaborate structures are required to store against gravity (requires woody tissues, availability to sweat or in amphibians lower the freezing point of water) Uneven heating of the earth"s spherical surface by the sun and the tilt of the earth produce a predictable latitudinal variation. Average temperatures are lower and more seasonal at middle and high latitudes than near the equator. Heating of the earth"s surface and atmosphere drives circulation of the atmosphere and influences patterns of precipitation. Corioles effect- in northern hemisphere causes deflection of winds to right in southern to left. Explore relationship between the distribution of terrestrial vegetation and climate. Adequate moisture for plant growth exists when precipitation is above the temperature line. Laterization- heavy rain breaks down clay and organic material leading to mineral leaching.

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