BILD 3 Final: Section 11 (Physical Environment and the Biosphere)
28 Jun 2016
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Physical environment and the biosphere: ecology is the scientific study of the interactions that determine the distribution and abundance of organisms (three approaches: descriptive, functional = immediate cause for where things are now, evolutionary) a. i. Climate: define climate, and explain how the sun drives global climate patterns. Specifically, describe why the poles are cold and the tropics are warm, and what leads to seasonal variation in climate: climate is the long-term, prevailing weather conditions in a given area a. i. The sun drives global climate patterns because of the amount of sunlight a specific area receives a. i. 1. Be able to draw the bands of circulating air around the planet (hadley cells) on a global map, identify regions of high moisture and arid (desert) regions, and explain how the cells create those regions. a. Latitudinal variation in solar intensity establishes a net movement of energy from equator to poles a. i.
