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| is the process that changes population of organisms over time, associated with changes in the frequency of heritable traits in a population. A change in gene frequency in a population |
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| is the cause of evolution |
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All of the non-treatment factors to be the same for all experimental groups
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Multiple individuals in each group, observed to document and average variation
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That is groups that receive different treatments to determine response
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is what weather stations report and what we represented with a climate diagram
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| is climate variation on a scale of few kilometers, meters, or even centimeters, measured over a short period of time |
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| short term physiological adjustments |
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| long term physiological adjustments |
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| internal heat or metabolic activity |
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| transfer of heat between objects in direct contact |
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| process if heat flow between solid body and moving fluid |
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| heat transferred through electromagnetic radiation |
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| heat loss by an organism by water evaporating |
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| when environmental conditions often differ from conditions within an organism body |
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| species control body temperature using external heat source |
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| species increases metabolic activity to increase body temperature above that of the environment |
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| - variable body temperature |
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| constant body temp, but with variable set point |
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| range of environmental temperature over which the metabolic rate of homeothermic animal does not change |
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| state of low metabolic rate and lowered body temperature |
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- when a species experiences torpor for a extended time
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reduction of metabolic rate to withstand a certain temperature for a period of time
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- if an internal environment differs from the external environment differ in concentration of water and salts, the substances will move down the concentration gradient
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diffusion of water across a semipermable membrane
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measure of water content of air relative to its content at saturation
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| - pressure exerted by all gases in the air ( total atmospheric pressure |
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| saturation vapor pressure- |
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pressure exerted by the water vapor in the air that is saturated with water
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| vapor pressure deficit,(VPD) |
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- difference between the actual water vapor pressure and the saturation water vapor pressure at a particular temperature
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-capacity of water to do work, which is determined by its free energy content
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| - organism that can synthesize organic molecules using inorganic molecules and energy from either sunlight or from inorganic molecules, such as hygdrogen sulfide |
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- organism that uses organic molecules both as a source of carbon and as a source of energy
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| organism that eats plants |
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- organism that consumes flesh
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| - organism that consumes dead matter |
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- what’s left for growth and reproduction
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- plant gives off more CO2 from respiration than they take up for photosynthesis
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| more product allows organism to grow, spends water to keep cool |
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