Chapter 52 Flashcards
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What are the 6 types of Ecology?
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Organismal Population Community Ecosystem Landscape Global
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What is Ecology?
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Scientific study of the interactions between organisms and the environment
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Organismal ecology
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How an organisms structure and behavior meet environmental challenges
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Population ecology
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Factors affecting how many individuals of a species live in an area
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Community Ecology
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Whole array of interacting species in a community
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Ecosystem Ecology
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Emphasizes energy flow and chemical cycling
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Landscape Ecology
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Arrays of ecosystems and how they are arranged in a geographic region
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Global Ecology
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The influence of energy and materials on organisms across the biosphere
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Dispersal
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Movement of individuals away from centers of high population density or from their area of origin
