BIOLOGY 2F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Sea Surface Temperature, Walker Circulation, Atmospheric Circulation
22 Sep 2016
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Abiotic condition impose a significant pressure on the organism that live within a given location. This pressure can impact the fitness of an organism that live in the given location. Over deep geologic time the movement of tectonic plates has created the landscaped we see now and destroyed many others that we never will. Atmosphere consist of different layers same with the physical structure of the earth. Earth has a solid inner layer surround by a fluid mantle and an outer crust. The lithosphere sits on the slow moving asthenosphere. Where the lithosphere breaks we observe faults. Lithosphere is arranged into 15 major plates which have change in size. Plates move over time and crash into each other, separating or subsiding which damages the physical structure of earth"s surface. Continental drift first proposed in the early 1900s. The idea that earth was dynamic and not fixed challenged scientist until they proved it later.
