Overview and Objectives

This lesson discusses what scale is and how it relates to understanding and interpreting natural phenomena.

This lesson covers the concept of scale. At the completion of this lesson, you should be able to:

1. Explain the meaning of scale in terms of grain and extent in space and time
2. Explain why different patterns can emerge from different scales
3. Differentiate between functional and observational scale
4. Explain how processes at broad scales can constrain those at fine scales
5. Explain how fine-scale processes can become broad-scale processes