s greenhouse gases trap the heat in the atmosphere,
This is responsible for global warming. The gases trap a lot of hear which raises the global temperature which is slowly starting to melt the ice caps. This again, is due to the CO2 emissions from the rise in industrialization.
Global climate change is the term used to describe altered global weather patterns, including a worldwide increase in temperature, due largely to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
CO2 levels have been rising over the years. As the population grew, the demand for goods went up which in turn boosted the industrialization era. Because of industrialization, the CO2 emissions are growing every day,
The ecosystem is composed of all the biotic components (living things) in an area along with the abiotic components (non-living things) of that area
This ties in with the notes from Paul Anderson about biotic and abiotic components. This will be helpful in the isopod lab as well.
Within the discipline of ecology, researchers work at four specific levels, sometimes discretely and sometimes with overlap: organism, population, community, and ecosystem (Figure).
This is very similar to what they do in chemistry and anatomy. They observe the macroscopic as well as the microscopic aspects of a certain subject. Ecology is split into 4 groups that contain their own subgroups.
One core goal of ecology is to understand the distribution and abundance of living things in the physical environment
Ecology looks to be an important aspect of biology. After all, it's how Charles Darwin was able to come up with his "Origin of Species". He made good observations and elaborated on those. From those, he was able to come up with a conjecture that was later "proven" with more data.
The allele frequency (or gene frequency)
This is the basis of the Hardy-Weinberg Equation.
p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1
Descriptive (or discovery) science, which is usually inductive
This is the type of science that is typically used in the real world to discover solutions to problems or develop new and more efficient things.