Are only living beings affected by wind chill?
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Anything warmer than the air temperature will be affected\n\nMeaning more heat will be lost from the warm object if there is  wind. The wind moves the lost heat away from the object.
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Yes.\n\nThe body cools itself by evaporation of perspiration from the skin.  In dry air, perspiration evaporates rapidly causing a cooling affect but in humid air, perspiration evaporates less quickly so you don't feel as cool.  You'll feel warmer at the same temperature in a humid climate.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidity#Effects_on_human_body\n\nIn it's simplest form, the "heat index" attempts to capture this property of perceived temperature by factoring humidity and temperature into a single value.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index\n\n\nSome of the weather services such as Accuweather have devised ways of expressing the perceived temperature that include multiple factors including: "ambient temperature, wind speed, solar intensity, humidity, precipitation intentisty/type, elevation, and atmospheric pressure".  The purpose of this is to try and include all factors that might affect how we perceive temperature.\nhttp://www.accuweather.com/iwxpage/adc/help/pr_realfeel_pr.htm\nhttp://wwwa.accuweather.com/company.asp?page=about\n\nWeather.com has their "Feels Like" temperature rating which is similar.\n\n\nOf course, there are situations where it is so hot that it doesn't matter about the humidity.
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It depends on the insect. Some die off leaving eggs behind to hatch next season (like the Praying Mantis). I have heard some critters replace the water in their bodies with glycerin so they don't freeze during the cold months.
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yes.\n\nthey are mammals and do not breathe underwater.\n\nthey take in air at the surface, so it does not matter what type of water they live in.
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Not very long. In most circumstance 5-7 minutes. However, in some cases, let's say, when someone falls into a half frozen pond or something, the cold is suppose to slow down their body system enough that there have been a few cases where people have been pulled out of FREEZING water 20 minutes later and they lived. Some may have had brain damage but they lived. I hope this helps!
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They can hunker down in deep grasses. The snow and grass act as insulation keeping them warm.\n\nWhat's cooler (pun intended) than this is to look at tree squirrels, who have nests high in trees open to the blowing wind. Even they stay warm while being that exposed. The nests help trap body heat while breaking the wind.\n\nNature has some remarkable methods to keep animals warm.
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Yes, if you take something thats adapt to its enviroment and place it in a different enviroment it will die, or try to find a suitable enviroment. This is only with organisms that are weaker then some and cant adapt fast enough. Often the most simple organism is the strongest, without heating and air conditioning humans would have alot of problems with moving, even from the central united states to the southern states. In the past, thousands of people died from a heat wave that swept accross the US, and the tempuratures werent that high, if you are use to the mid/southern states. But it was in the northern states that it happened.
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Few complex life forms we know of can survive exposure temperatures that low for more than a moment. However, if pockets of milder temperatures could be found (thermal vents, well isulated hybernation dens, etc) some life would likely adapt. Life forms that could mature and reproduce in one warm season (such as a plant that produces spores capable of surviving such a harsh winter) would have a great advantage. Plants such as trees woudn't stand a chance, as is true of many things humans and other complex life depend on for food and shelter. \n\nAnother consideration would be the erosion due to lack of any plants capable of maintaining a root system to stablize soil. Between the turbidity from erosion and likelyhood that all rivers would freeze solid through most of the winter, most life in rivers and lakes would become extinct. Since the upper temperature is not much if any higher than what we have now, the average temperatue is much lower. This would concentrate vast amounts of water in the icecaps, possibly enough to greatly increase the salinity of the oceans, which would also see a major drop in temperature. Most marine life is more sensitive to temperatue changes than terrestrial or freshwater life, so a great number of extinctions there also.\n\nSo no, life would not survive other than perhaps a few simple life forms. Even a drop of a dozen degrees in average temperature would be devastating in the long run for life as we know it.
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The living creature itself and the environments surrounding it.
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Everything on Earth affects the climate, including its human inhabitants. Just by breathing we add carbon dioxide to the air, which in turn affects climate patterns. And, of course, humans create machines that add pollutants to the atmosphere and we disrupt the climate every time we drain a swamp or otherwise make nature do something different.\n\nHowever, the Earth's climate has undergone many dramatic changes over its four-billion-year lifespan, and none of them had anything to do with humans. So, while humans are a part of the process, climate change is itself a natural occurrence.
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it will cause some transitory cooling as the moon's shadow tracks across the surface of the earth - this localized cooling may cause some brief wind as the surrounding warmer air interacts with the cooler air in the shadow.  These effects are minor, and short-lived.
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12F temperature and -27F wind chill
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Just a quick thought here that may help you.  Under "cold blooded" - or ectothermic - we understand an organism that does not produce a relatively constant body core temperature by means of metabolitic activity etc., but rather regulates its temperature by shutteling between warmer and coller areas.  It takes on the temperature of its environment.  That would be detrimental in case of an animal living in antarctic conditions.  A penguin's blood would freeze, there would be crystalization, and the cells would eventually burst.  In other words, the penguin would be a very cold toast.\n\nNow, there are however ectothermic organisms in arctic and antarctic oceans, which maintain blood flow by using a chemcial anti-freeze.  This has been found, for example in some fishes (the plural is allowed here, since we aretalking about more than one species).  But penguins don't have anything like that and do not need it.  As others have mentioned above, they are very well insulated endotherms (maintain a relatively stable core temperature).\n\nHope this helps in addition to the other answers.
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yeah..though i think they just hibernate...don't they. I'm being swarmed by ladybugs,it's crazy! Don't worry though global warming isn't happening!
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It depends on heat and their own weight.It is harder for large animals to cool themselves.
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No but it would affect existence on the planet! There is a delicate balance to be maintained and if polar ice caps melted, this balance would be tipped over.  You can certainly expect weird weather.
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outdoor cold, luv that chill