What kind of fluctuations in weather patterns do you expect to see in your area? will the fluctuations or changes vary by month, by year, or will they remain fairly consistent? how might these changes or consistencies affect the ecosystem in which you live?

Prevailing definitions of climate are not much different from “the climate is what you expect, the weather is what you get”. Using a variety of sources including reanalyses and paleo data, and aided by notions and analysis techniques from Nonlinear Geophysics, we argue that this dictum is fundamentally wrong. In addition to the weather and climate, there is a qualitatively distinct intermediate regime extending over a factor of ≈ 1000 in scale.Climate changes is projected to affect individual organisms, populations, ... Overall, there is a strong correlation between topographic slope and velocity from ... the ecosystems they live in—will adapt to these changes, or if they even can.

The relevant equation we can use in this problem is:

h = v0 t + 0.5 g t^2

where h is height, v0 is initial velocity, t is time, g is gravity

 

Since it was stated that the rock was drop, so it was free fall and v0 = 0, therefore:

h = 0 + 0.5 * 9.81 m/s^2 * (4.9 s)^2

h = 117.77 m