Distinguish between the terms weather and climate, and briefly discuss how each affects species distribution within ecosystems
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Weather describes short-term atmospheric conditions such as temperature, moisture content, wind, precipitation, barometric pressure, solar radiation, and other characteristics. Climate is an area's long-term pattern of atmospheric conditions. Weather can cause annual changes in population size, but climate tends to have a much larger and longer-term influence over geographic distribution of organisms. Confusion of these two concepts leads to a great deal of public misconception about the nature of global climate change. Thus, a cold winter in New England may be reported as proof that global climate change is not a valid concept, or an unusually hot summer may be inappropriately ascribed to the long-term processes of climate change.
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Volcanic island chains forms over hot spots when the
A) hot spot travels. B) tectonic plate carrying the volcanoes travels over the stationary hot spot. C) hot spot expands. D) all of these
This process transfers tremendous amounts of energy from Earth's surface to the atmosphere, from low latitudes to high ones, and it is also the mechanism most influential in causing precipitation
A) Angle of incidence B) Latent heat exchange C) Albedo D) Absorption E) Relative humidity
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In regard to sea surface temperature (SST), as one travels toward the poles SST
A. increases. B. decreases. C. decreases and then increases. D. remains constant.