ENVIRONMENTS AND LIFE
OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this
lesson you should be able to:
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1. understand the basic principles
of ecology;
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2. identify the factors that influence
in the distribution and abundance of species;
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3. describe the features of the
atmosphere, the terrestrial realm and the marine realm as habitats for
life;
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4. discuss how the terrestrial and
marine food webs function
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5. characterize the community of
organisms that inhabit the different portions of the realms described in
3;
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6. discuss how the food web functions
in each one of them;
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7. indicate how fossils may be used
to define paleocological zones and provide information about past environmental
conditions.
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