GEOG 2050 Chapter : Phys Geog Feb 25 2013
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5 homework due on march 1, friday night. St. kilda island in scotland: showed a video on the wild soay sheep that live on an island off of scotland. Shrinking sheep -because the winters are milder, the smaller sheep are surviving, there are more sheep now thus more competition for food. We will be discussing temperature concepts and measurement, principal temperature controls, and one other concept in this chapter. Refresher of key concepts: average motion of kinetic energy is temp, heat is that transfer of energy from warm to cool objects, sensible heat is the heat you feel, a thermometer measures sensible heat. Measuring temperature: thermometer, thermistor (see in book figure of thermometer, coldest temp -90 f in russia, hottest temp in saudi arabia. Average (mean: take all the numbers you have and divide by n (the number of numbers, example: 2+2+3+2+5+10=24; then divide 24/6=4.
