GEOG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Climate Classification, Plants And Animals, Abiotic Component
Document Summary
Climatologists have developed a set of rules to examine monthly temperature and precipitation. About 13 distinctive climate types have been recognized. A popular climate classification is that devised by the australian climatologist vladimir. Koppen in 1918 and modified by geiger and pohl in 1953. Ecology: a study of the interactions between life forms and the environment with which they interact. Biosphere: worldwide system within which all life functions. Includes the atmosphere (air: hydrosphere (water, lithosphere (soils, rocks) Biome: major ecological region within which plant and animal species are similar in general characteristics and in their relationships to the physical environment: tundra, deserts, rain forests, grasslands. Ecosystem: collection of living organisms in a geographic area, together with the non- living things with which they interact: aquatic: water based systems, terrestrial: land based systems. Population: a group of organisms of the same kind living in each area. Natural community: populations of different species living together and interacting in a given geographic area.
