Notes in ECO lecture 1

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Published	02/03/2025	Eco=______?
Published	02/03/2025	What are some examples of abiotic factors?
Published	02/03/2025	How can a biotic element affect the abiotic enviornment?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a keystone species?
Published	02/03/2025	What is the basic unit in ecology?
Published	02/03/2025	What do individual organisms sense and repsond to?
Published	02/03/2025	What do individuals do to the populations and communities?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a population?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a community?
Published	02/03/2025	What is the difference between community and ecosystem?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a landscape?
Published	02/03/2025	What is the biosphere?
Published	02/03/2025	What is ecology?
Published	02/03/2025	What is the biophilia hypothesis?
Published	02/03/2025	What is an ecosystem?
Published	02/03/2025	What are the 2 things that the ecosystem consists of?
Published	02/03/2025	What is biotic?
Published	02/03/2025	How can organisms modify the abiotic factors of a enviornment?==>tree example
Published	02/03/2025	How do populations function in a ecosystem?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a biome?
Published	02/03/2025	What must a observation be?
Published	02/03/2025	What is the second step of the scientific method?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a hypothesis?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a theory?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a statistical population?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a sample?
Published	02/03/2025	What does the sample provide?
Published	02/03/2025	What is categorical data?
Published	02/03/2025	What is nomial data?
Published	02/03/2025	What is ordinal data?
Published	02/03/2025	What is binary data?
Published	02/03/2025	What is numerical data?
Published	02/03/2025	What is discrete data?
Published	02/03/2025	What is continuous data?
Published	02/03/2025	What is frequency distribution?
Published	02/03/2025	What are the steps to working with ecological data?
Published	02/03/2025	What are summary statistics?
Published	02/03/2025	What is standard deviation?
Published	02/03/2025	What are outliers and what can they impact?
Published	02/03/2025	What do we do with outliers?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a Gaussian distribution?
Published	02/03/2025	What are parametric statistics used for? What are examples of parametric tests?
Published	02/03/2025	What are the assumptions needed for parametric statistical tests?
Published	02/03/2025	How do we deal with assumption violations?
Published	02/03/2025	What are scatterplots?
Published	02/03/2025	What are the three simple patterns of scatterplots?
Published	02/03/2025	What are the two types of linear models?
Published	02/03/2025	What are the characteristics of a correlation linear model?
Published	02/03/2025	What are the characteristics of a regression linear model?
Published	02/03/2025	What is R? What are its characteristics?
Published	02/03/2025	What is r2 and its characteristics?
Published	02/03/2025	What does a higher r2 value mean?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a t-test?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a t-value?
Published	02/03/2025	What is the p-value?
Published	02/03/2025	What is the alpha value?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a Type I error?
Published	02/03/2025	what is the ecological hierachy?
Published	02/03/2025	Lab vs field experiment
Published	02/03/2025	Experiment vs study?
Published	02/03/2025	what is a histogram?
Published	02/03/2025	What aspect of the physical enviornment most influnces a particular ecosystem?
Published	02/03/2025	What is weather?
Published	02/03/2025	What is climate?
Published	02/03/2025	What is albedo? What is it expressed as?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a high albedo?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a low albedo?
Published	02/03/2025	What is net radiation?
Published	02/03/2025	What happens if the amount of incoming shortwave radiation exceeds the amount of outgoing longwave radiation?
Published	02/03/2025	WHat happens to surface temperature if the quantity of outgoing longwave radiaiton exceeds incoming shortwave radiation?
Published	02/03/2025	What should ideally be the balance of radiation?
Published	02/03/2025	Why do we experience seasons?
Published	02/03/2025	Do all areas of the earth experience seasons?
Published	02/03/2025	What is the postion of the sun during the vernal equinox(march 21) and autumnal equinox(sep. 22)
Published	02/03/2025	Where is the sun during the summer solstice(jun 22)
Published	02/03/2025	What happens during the winter solstice (dec. 22)
Published	02/03/2025	What is the difference between climate and weather?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a dependent variable?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a independent variable?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a predictor variable?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a response variable?
Published	02/03/2025	What is the broad global trend in biodiversity?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a parameter?
Published	02/03/2025	What explains why there is mores species diversity at the equator?
Published	02/03/2025	What is a statistic?
Published	02/03/2025	What drives geographic variation in climate and weather patterns?
Published	02/03/2025	What is PAR?
Published	02/03/2025	What do shorter wavelengths produce?
Published	02/03/2025	What do longer wavelengths produce?
Published	01/22/2025	Why do we have seasons?
Published	01/22/2025	What is the diurnal cycle?
Published	01/22/2025	How does latitude affect variance in seasonality?
Published	01/23/2025	How do regions of surplus and deficit and how relate to atmospheric circulation
Published	01/24/2025	What is a rain shadow?
Published	01/24/2025	What climate driver infulnced the severity of the LA wildfires?
Published	01/24/2025	What governs the large-scale distribution of plants/nature of terrestrial ecosystems?
Published	01/24/2025	How did wet winters coutnrtibute to the LA fires?
Published	01/24/2025	How do santa ana winds contribute to LA fires?
Published	01/24/2025	How does proximity to the coastline influence climate?
Published	01/24/2025	What are microclimates inhabited by organisms affected by?
Published	01/24/2025	What are characteristics of urban microclimates?
Published	01/24/2025	What is the purpose of clover cyanide production?
Published	01/24/2025	How do urban heat islands affect cyanide production?
Published	01/24/2025	What is a confounding variable?
Published	01/24/2025	What is environmentalism?
Published	01/24/2025	What is a null hypothesis?
Published	01/24/2025	What is an alternate hypothesis?
Published	01/24/2025	Does correlation equal causation?
Published	01/24/2025	What are greenhouse gases?
Published	01/24/2025	What is the greenhouse effect?
Published	01/24/2025	What is the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)
Published	01/24/2025	What is the Coriolis effect?
Published	01/27/2025	What are the three cells of atmospheric circulation?
Published	01/27/2025	What are currents?
Published	01/27/2025	What are gyres?
Published	01/27/2025	What is the saturation vapor pressure?
Published	01/27/2025	What is dew point?
Published	01/27/2025	What is relative humidity?
Published	01/25/2025	What features other than the Coriolis affect the deflection of wind?
Published	01/25/2025	What is the hadley cell?
Published	01/25/2025	What are gyres?
Published	01/25/2025	What are the 2 circular water motions of gyres?
Published	01/25/2025	How do the trade winds affect water currents?
Published	02/04/2025	How do westerly winds at higher latitudes affect water currents?
Published	01/25/2025	What is relative humidity?
Published	01/25/2025	What is the dew point temperature?
Published	01/25/2025	What is vapor pressure?
Published	01/25/2025	What are the conditions in the pacific during El nino?
Published	01/25/2025	What are conditions normally like, not el nino?
Published	01/25/2025	What is La nina?
Published	01/25/2025	What is the pattern of airflow driven by areas of high and low pressure?
Published	01/27/2025	What are some examples of biotic factors?
Published	01/27/2025	What is the first step of the scientific method?
Published	01/27/2025	What is the third step of the scientific method?
Published	01/28/2025	What is the fifth step of the scientific method?
Published	01/27/2025	In a histogram, why is continuous data transformed into categorical data?
Published	01/27/2025	What is the water cycle?
Published	01/27/2025	What is the dirivng force behind the water cycle?
Published	01/27/2025	What starts the water cycle?
Published	01/27/2025	What is interception?
Published	01/27/2025	What happens to water that is intercepted?
Published	01/27/2025	What is infiltration?
Published	01/27/2025	What does the rate of infiltration depend on?
Published	01/27/2025	What is surface runoff?
Published	01/27/2025	What is groundwater?
Published	01/27/2025	What are the characteristics of water?
Published	01/27/2025	What water gets evaporated?
Published	01/27/2025	What is transpiration?
Published	01/27/2025	What is found below the watertable?
Published	01/27/2025	What is a result of water's high specific heat?
Published	01/27/2025	What is the effect of the lattice arrangement of water?
Published	01/27/2025	When is a water lattice structure formed?
Published	01/27/2025	Why is a lattice less dense?
Published	01/27/2025	How does water evaporate?
Published	01/27/2025	What is cohesion for water?
Published	01/27/2025	What is the result of cohesion of water?
Published	01/27/2025	What is viscosity?
Published	01/27/2025	Why does water have a greater viscoity than air?
Published	01/27/2025	How does the viscosity of water affect animals?
Published	01/27/2025	Why is surface tension important for organisms?
Published	01/27/2025	Wha tis buoyancy?
Published	01/27/2025	How does the property of bouyancy affect organisms?
Published	01/27/2025	Can two populations be significantly different from one another if they have the same variation?
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Published	01/27/2025	The total shortwave solar radiation {{c1::absorbed}} by the earth is the total incoming shortwave radiation, minus the shortwave radition {{c1::reflec…
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Published	01/27/2025	What is a boundary layer?
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Published	01/27/2025	What are the type sof boudnary layers?
Published	01/27/2025	What is diffusion?
Published	01/27/2025	What do diffusion coefficients depend on?
Published	01/27/2025	What are boundary layers?
Published	01/27/2025	What are the three types of boundary layers?
Published	01/27/2025	What is the benthic boundary layer?
Published	01/27/2025	What is the momentum boundary layer?
Published	01/27/2025	What does the amount of light reflected form the surface of water depend on?
Published	01/27/2025	What is the diffusion boundary layer?
Published	01/27/2025	Life depends on {{c1::boundary layer exchange}}
Published	01/27/2025	Other than the angle what to processes affect the amount of light entering the water surface?
Published	01/27/2025	What is viscosity?
Published	01/27/2025	What is a reynolds number?
Published	01/27/2025	What is Reynolds number (Re)? What is the Re for small organisms and big organisms?
Published	01/27/2025	How do small organisms with low Re swim?
Published	01/27/2025	What does a low reynolds number mean for a organism?
Published	01/27/2025	What wavelengths of light does water absorb?
Published	01/27/2025	How does light variation in depth affect organisms?
Published	01/27/2025	What are the characteristics of heat capacity?
Published	01/27/2025	What is lift?
Published	01/27/2025	What is drag?
Published	01/27/2025	What is lift of water?
Published	01/27/2025	What is drag of water? What is drag at low Re vs. high Re
Published	01/27/2025	What is the solution to drag of water?
Published	01/27/2025	What is shear?
Published	01/28/2025	What is the fourth step of the scientific method?
Published	01/28/2025	What are the properties of a population?
Published	01/28/2025	How do populations within an ecosystem interact with each other?
Published	01/28/2025	How are terrestial biomes classified?
Published	01/28/2025	What is individual/physiological ecology?
Published	01/28/2025	What is global ecology?
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