GLY 2010C- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 87 pages long!)
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Cambrian explosion the rapid evolutionary radiation of animals during the early cambrian period, after almost 3 billion years of very slow evolution, in which all the major branches of the animal tree of life originated within about. El nino an anomalous warming of the eastern tropical pacific ocean that occurs every 3 to 7 years and lasts for a year or so. Enso a natural cycle of variation in the exchange of heat between the atmosphere and the tropical pacific. Milankovitch cycle a pattern of periodic variations in earth"s movement around the sun that affects the amount of solar energy received at earth"s surface; include variations in the eccentricity of earth"s orbit, the tile of. Upper layer of the earth"s mantle, below the lithosphere. This is where rocks become plastic and are easily deformed. The weather condition prevailing in an area in general or over a long period of time.
