[ECS 113] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (23 pages long)

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Ecosystem Science and Policy
• Course: ECS 113
• Professor: Maranto Gina

Document Summary

Anywhere inhabited or habited: moon or earth. Has components: does not have to have life, moon- a-life, anoxic environment, temperature/light/ pressure. Ecosystem vs. environment: technically or literally, ecosystem. An area that has a specific climate/ components: bioregionalism. Why a biome is the way it is based on location. State boundaries are not accurate boundaries for biomes/ climates. National: national park service, environmental protection agency, national fish and wildlife, army corps. Individual: voting, being part of organizations for/against it. The problem is that we have too many solutions . Membrane- most important boundary: every living organism with a metabolism produces waste, prokaryotes and eukaryotes, asexual production- almost identical dna for everyone, sexual- mixed dna coming from many different organisms. Allows for greater adaptability: we made tools. Achulian hand axes- used for 1. 5 million years: 790 thousand years ago we figured out how to conserve- but not make- fire, agriculture was not created it emerged upon need.