Graph 2 Lab Report

Answer. The isothermal shift is much more pronounced in high altitudes than in low and also much more pronounced over the continents than over the oceans. (Hess, 2011, p.90). The temperature gradient (rate of temperature change with horizontal distance) is steeper in winter than in

a. The high temperatures of a desert are harsh for life to try to survive in. The extreme temperatures cause water to evaporate faster. This affects all organisms that need water to survive. The temperature also limits productivity by drying out organisms increasing the demand for water. The soil in deserts are dry and lack nutrients that are beneficial to plants. Both high temperature and poor soil greatly affects the photosynthesis of plants in a negative way. The annual precipitation in deserts are very low which is one of the reasons for low productivity. Little water is available for photosynthesis and organisms who depend on it. With little water available for organisms survival, deserts have extremely low productivity when compared to other

1: Describe the relationship between the UV Index (the colored bar in Figure 1) and latitude (y-axis).

The mole is a convenient unit for analyzing chemical reactions. Avogadro’s number is equal to the mole. The mass of a mole of any compound or element is the mass in grams that corresponds to the molecular formula, also known as the atomic mass. In this experiment, you will observe the reaction of iron nails with a solution of copper (II) chloride and determine the number of moles involved in the reaction. You will determine the number of moles of copper produced in the reaction of iron and copper (II) chloride, determine the number of moles of iron used up in the reaction of iron and copper (II) chloride, determine the ratio of moles of iron to moles of copper, and determine the number of atoms and formula units involved in

Biomes are appropriate conditions for organizing the natural world because the organisms that live in them common constellations of adaptations, particularly the climate of each of the areas and the characteristic vegetation types that develops in these divisions. It should be understood that the climate is perhaps the most important in determining classes of individuals who may live in an area and the ways they should be amended to live under different conditions of temperature and precipitation and seasonal distribution of these factors element. Every place on Earth has its own climate, influenced by both macroclimate regions as the particular microclimate. The soils are very important because they are essential to determine the types of plants that will grow into a bioclimatic zone in partical, in addition, also as substrates for animals serve. In turn, the soils are heavily influenced by regional climate, as well as the geology of the bedrock. At the same time we have to keep in mind the diversity of plants like the flora just like the diversity of the fauna as well as the adaptation of both.

The Earth has been experiencing a considerable amount of climate change for the last several decades. Natural factors that contribute to the climate system consist of: solar output, volcanic activity and earth’s orbit around the sun. The two factors relevant on timescales of contemporary climate exist in volcanic activity and changes in solar radiation. The earth’s energy balance primarily influences the amount of incoming energy from volcanic eruptions, which have a relatively short-term effect on climate. Changes in solar output have contributed greatly to climate trends over the past century. The effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has been at least ten times that of changes in the Sun’s output and the ocean covers more than 70 percent of the earth’s surface, receiving twice the amount of earth’s radiation. Although the sun is the engine that drives all the weather, oceans and atmosphere control the sun 's energy along certain

Two miles underground in the Vale Creighton mine lies an advance lab far from the common world. In this lab many experiments are done from sub-atomic and astro-particle physics to the reactions of fruit flies to this underground environment. But one of the experiments is how organisms react to the absence of radiation underground and how it effects life. SnoLab the company in charge of this facility calls this experiment REPAIR (Researching the Effects of the Presence and Absence of Ionizing Radiation).

2. (5 pts) List and explain the names and affiliations of the various characters/stakeholders in this story – I’m looking for us to use the story to map out the complexities that are generally associated with solving public health puzzles – the stakeholders you list and explain here should apply to many of the cases we consider going forward.

On the one hand, there is the effect of water content in the soil: due to its ability to store

What is the relationship between increased carbon in the ocean and increased carbon in the soil? Soil started off with a higher level of carbon increasing, but the ocean’s level of

What was the shape of your position vs. time graph? Explain what the shape of the graph tells you about the motion of the car and the forces acting on it.

Graph 6a (Substrate) – Represents a xy scatterplot with linear regression, which show the change in product concentration over the change in time at different substrate The data in the graph also gives the value of V0 at corresponding substrate concentration. Graph 6b (Substrate) – Represents a xy scatterplot depicting velocity of enzyme-catalyzed at multiple substrate concentrations. To find the concentration of the different absorbance in this experiment, a modified version of the Beer’s Law equation was used (C=A/k). The k which represents the slope in the equation was determine by using the date from Table 1 and points plotted in Graph 1. k=6.8339 the A in the equation is the measured absorbance which was determine by using a spectrophotometer.

The areas in the forest which contained fewer trees had higher light levels as well as drier soil moisture levels. The areas that were shaded by the trees had lower light levels and wetter soils. This concept demonstrated by the lab can be similarly be applied to the summer months (June) which has higher light levels and winter months (December) which has lower light intensity.

Of course, tropical soils are not this uniform. Even if parent materials were essentially homogeneous throughout the tropics, the huge range in temperature, topography and precipitation regime found within the tropical zone would lead to very different pedogenesis in different areas (Sanchez, 1976). Furthermore, there are a wide variety of parent materials found in the tropics. Some soils are formed on the ancient Brazilian and Guianan Shields, some on recently exposed or deposited parent materials, and some on volcanic ash (Van Wambecke and Dudal). The only characteristic all tropical soils share by definition is that they experience a temperature change of less than 5 C during the course of the year (Sanchez, 1976). While it is true that temperature effects pedogenic processes, it can hardly be argued that this similarity would outweigh all the differences cited above, so we must assume that there is a significant degree of variability among tropical soils.

Land-use and land-cover changes (LULCC) induced by human and natural processes a major role in global as well as regional scale patterns of the climate and biogeochemistry of the earth system (Ramachandra et al., 2012).Now a day’s Global warming is highly increasing as a result of massive land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes. The change in land-use land-cover leads to environmental change, rainy season fluctuation, increase sea surface temperature (SST) and land surface temperature (LST). This massive land-use and land-cover change is due increase the need of land for settlement and agricultural. Land is scarce (limited) natural resource which cannot be change when the number of population increases. Land-use should be matched with land capacity and at the same time it should respect the environment, and global climate system (FAO/UNEP, 1999).Land-use is converting over time and the most important driving force of land-use changes the human need. Human population is increasing and it causes transformation of natural ecosystems into human landscapes. Human settlements, the need for farmland and especially, large urban and industrial areas significantly modify their environment. Changing from permeable and moist land uses to impermeable and dry one with paving and building material can sharply affect energy budget and land surface temperature (Guo et al., 2012), as well as