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Module 2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Condensation
        
        Precipitation
        
        Runoff
        
        Infiltration
    - - Supply
        
        Purification
        
        Distribution
        
        Consumption
        
        Sewer
        
        Treatment
        
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  - - - The main physical properties of the seawater are:
      - The color of the seawater is usually blue; by reflection of the atmosphere’s color, however, varies by salinity, depth, and daylight hours.
      - It usually has a higher density than fresh water due to dissolved substances in it, i.e. salinity.
      - The temperature varies with latitude, depth, seasons and other factors.
      - Among the chemical properties that oceans and seas have, the most important is salinity
      - two types of waves: oscillation waves, which are typical of high seas, rise, advance and then retreat back to the same place where they began their ascent; translation waves, which occur in the coasts, they rise and when advancing collide with the sea bottom they rise forming a crest
- - - - All living organisms can be classified according their energy pathways as follows:
        
        Autotrophs: those that produce their own food (plants, algae), also called producers.
        
        Heterotrophs: they are also called "consumers", as they do not have the ability to produce their own food and therefore "consume" those who do or “producers”. This group includes animals and fungi.
        
        Decomposers are those that destroy other organisms that were once alive and return chemical elements to the soil (fungi and bacteria). This is a special kind of heterotrophs.
        
        ecology as a holistic and interdisciplinary science. It is holistic "because it integrates all branches of biology, such as botany, zoology, physiology, anatomy, microbiology, genetics
- - - - History knowledge provides for a better understanding of cultural and social processes that affect, change and shape the dynamics of a society that sits or migrates from one region or another.
    - - physical geography comprises several elements, including:
      - The landscape
        
        Flora and Fauna
      - is a branch of human geography that studies "the distribution of the population and its relationship with the physical and social aspects"
    - - This branch of Geography deals with political institutions, government systems, the impact of policy decisions and any process that takes place within this field. It equally applies to small-organized groups or organization as for countries.
- - - - Major emergent properties of populations, according Carabias (2009) are:
      - Size: The number of organisms that make up a population.
      - Density: Describes how close individuals are with each other, i.e. the number of organisms per unit of area or volume. It is a measure of the strength of competition for resources between organisms.
      - Distribution pattern: Refers to the order of organisms in a population
- - - - Species richness: the amount or the number of species forming a community. Though it is almost impossible to recognize this, because no scientist has been able to develop a list of the number of different species within a community.
      - Composition: the set of species that make up the community; let us know which species are present.
      - Structure: refers to the way a community is organized, here are derived as follows:
      - Horizontal stratification: indicates the distribution of organisms on Earth's surface; vary due to changes in topography, altitude and latitude
      - When the disturbance is severe, and communities and even the soil disappear, it is called primary succession. A tsunami or volcanic eruptions are good examples of this. In this succession type, the soil and community recovery are very slow, since soil formation is a natural process that takes a long time
        
        When the disturbance is less intense, does not remove all the soil organisms and maintains many of its properties, favoring plant regeneration, it is called secondary succession. For example, a forest fire or flood. In this sequence, the regeneration of vegetation and wildlife is much faster than the primary, because the soil did not lose their properties.