BIOLOGY 1AL Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Life Table, Aphotic Zone, Herd Immunity
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Homeostasis - organisms can change physiology, morphology to be better suited for habitat. Ex: go up to colorado, blood count goes up. Different types of organisms interaction (deer, hawk, fox,) -community. Entire regions in which organisms might find themselves and associated with the environment - landscape. Ernst haeckel - ecology came from greek word oikos and logia (study of environment) Climate - long term like temp, precipitation, wind, sunlight in a given area on earth. Weather - what"s happening in one time and one place. Represents conditions of the atmosphere in that time of day. Season - represents differences in what the weather is. B. c it"s tilted, sunlight is not exactly at equator and a little over or under. Different place on earth different amounts of sunlight reaching earth - angle of incidence. Continents size matters on why southern and northern hemisphere has different temp. Lots of moisture at equator because of circulation.
