Chapter 13.1

Question 0

At what level of organization do ecologists study environments?

Answer 0

different levels

Question 1

ecology

Answer 1

the study of the relationships among organisms and their environments.

Question 2

the study of the interactions among living things, and between living things and their surroundings.

Answer 2

ecology

Question 3

what is an organism?

give and example.

Answer 3

an individual living thing

ex: any living thing (answers vary)

Question 4

what is a population?

Answer 4

a group of the same species that lives in one area.

Question 5

what is a community?

Answer 5

a group of different species that live together in one area.

Question 6

what is an ecosystem?

Answer 6

includes all of the organisms as well as the climate, soil, water, rocks, and other nonliving things in a given area.

Question 7

what is a biome?

Answer 7

a major regional or global community of organisms characterized by the climate conditions and plant communities that thrive there.

Question 8

what are the order of environments from small to large? (5)

Answer 8

organism
population
community
ecosystem 
biome

Question 9

what does ecological research methods include?

Answer 9

observation
experimentation
modeling

Question 10

used for easy to spot species (binoculars or scopes)

Answer 10

direct surveys

Question 11

used for species that are difficult to track and include looking for other signs of their presence.

Answer 11

indirect surveys.