GVPT 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Temperate Climate, Poikilotherm, Homeothermy

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 100
• Professor: Irwin Morris

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Please type your answers into this document and upload to elms by. You may work on this homework on your own or discuss it with others. If you work through questions with others, be sure to turn in your own work, at the level at which you understand it. Do not simply copy answers from or for someone else. Questions such as these will show up on exams, so be sure to work to understand how to arrive at the answers: (3 pts). Explain why, within typical real-world temperature ranges in the temperate zone, homeotherm and poikilotherm metabolic rates show the general relationships to ambient temperature shown in the plot at right: (7 pts). For ectotherms in aquatic ecosystems, temperature & dissolved oxygen (do) tend to dominate physiology & behavior: temperature is a controlling factor that sets the rate of metabolism, whereas do is a limiting factor.