Lect 6 Flashcards
1
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Phrenology
A
study of bumps on your head and how it relates to your personality
2
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Poikilotherms
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- Organisms that are not able to regulate their own body heat
- Homeotherms are able to modify their own body temperature
- If its hot or cold outside our temperature stays the same
3
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Percip
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- Youll get a shift up of biomes
- –There already rare members of organisms on top of biomes
- –If you’re an animal that likes grasslands and the gl move north your distribution cam move north
- –If you like a biome on a mountaintop and you’re a plant its difficult for you to move
4
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Sea level rise
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Occurs for two reasons
- When you melt ice on land it goes into the ocean
- As water gets warmer it expands
- One foot rise is like 20ft in
- You get a loss of islands
- But you may get new ones because you’re moving in shore
- It depends on how quickly an animal shift
5
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Will organisms adapt
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- Yes and no
- They adapt but it comes to things like climate change which is the biggest extinction
- Look at how semsitive things are to climate change
6
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The future to climate change is pretty mild
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Only increases 4 to 6 degree change by 2100
7
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Environmental law
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- When it comes US law its been an evolution
- Before 1850 there were none. If you owned land you did whatever you want
- Before ww2 there weren’t alot of synthetic chemical
8
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Dept of interior
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- Found in 1849
- Job was to manage federal lands
- Giffort Pinchot
9
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Yellowstone park
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First national park in 1872
10
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First environmental law
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- 1899
- RHAA
- Rivers and Harbors appropriation Act
- It said you cant dump that effect navigation into rivers
11
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20th century
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- First national wildlife refuge
- 1903 ted roosevelt creates pellican island in florida
- –First national wildlife refuge
- –To show you have money you shoot birds and put their feathers in your hat. He wanted to stop all of this
- –There was still sustainable hunting
- –Egrets were shot during their reproductive season and roosevelt also didnt like that
12
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National park service
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- 1960
- Roosevelt created this
13
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CCC
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- 1930s
- Civilian conservation core
- Federal program
- Hired people to go out if you had places where soil was degrading, your job was to plant seedlings all over the place. There were other projects too
14
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Age of the hippies
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1960s
Without them we wouldnt have alot of our laws
15
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Clean air act
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1963
Started in US and spread
There wasnt any actual law
