GEOG 2051 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gradualism, Mudrock, Orogeny
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Starts with apriori knowledge (pre-existing knowledge) (image of the world) . Then you identify a problem/gap in the knowledge (try and learn as much as you can about the gap) . Background research (collect and process information on the problem) . Hypothesis (provisional explanation of some phenomenon that requires verification) . Evaluate the hypothesis (determine if it really works, called the testing phase -- do experiments, collect data try to falsify or prove our hypothesis is wrong) . 3 components of ecosystem: 1) grass (dependent of moisture of atmosphere, 2) island mice (live on eating grass, 3) island wolf (lives on eating mice, represents the changes of biomass over time, biomass in an ecosystem will fluctuate over time with the amount of inputs and outputs which influence productivity, biomass is used to measure productivity/living material of ecosystems, increase in biomass overtime, increases health of mice and wolves (ex. of, only 2 sources of energy that power everything on earth.
