Environmental Temperature

Question 1

What does temperature influence in the physical environment?

Answer 1

Ionisation and pH
Viscosity
Surface tension
solubility of gases

Question 2

what does temperature govern in terms of energy?

Answer 2

temperature governs all processes that include a flow of energy (capacity to do work)

Question 3

3 laws of thermodynamics

Answer 3

1- energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed from one form to another

2- Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe

3- At absolute zero, the entropy of a perfect crystal is zero.

Question 4

Examples of temporal variability (3 examples)

Answer 4

(Surface Sea Temperature) SST over geological time

seasonal variation in SST

Daily temperature variations

Question 5

what is variation in physiological traits associated with?

Answer 5

Associated with variation in the environment (latitude but also microclimate)

Question 6

How an organisms response to climate change if they move?

Answer 6

move and shift their distribution

Question 7

An organisms response to climate change if they stay put?

Answer 7

die and become local or globally extinct

cope through tolerance/avoidance or phenotypic plasticity

adapt through a shift in population genetic structure