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Lecture 2 Flashcards

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What is an ecological niche/ hutchinson niche?

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What does lower latitiude mean for temperature and rainfall?

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What does a higher latitude mean for temperature and rainfall?

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How does latitude and angles of sunlight determine temp at the equator, at the poles, seasonality?

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Explain Hadley cells

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Explain Ferrell cells and polar cells

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What is the Intertropical convergence zone // tropics?

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How do they shift in the year?

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What is the Coriolis effect?

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Explain the interactions between corilois and hadley cells (predicting prevailing winds)

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What are biomes? And how do latitudes determine them?

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Explain orographic precipitation

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Why does temperature vary more in northern hemispheres than southern hemispheres?

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How do ocean currents and cold oceans effect rainfall?

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Ecological niche modelling: what is it, why is it useful?

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