Chapter 54 Ecology

Question 1

What does ecology study?

Answer 1

Study of species distribution patterns

Question 2

What is ecology?

Answer 2

interactions between organisms and their enviroments

Question 3

What do biotic and abiotc factors affect?

Answer 3

Where species live, how many, how they reproduce

Question 4

Levels of organization in ecology: OPCE

Answer 4

-Organismal
-Population
-Community
-Ecosystem

Question 5

What is organismal ecology?

Answer 5

How organisms are physically adapted to their environmetnt

Question 6

What is population ecology?

Answer 6

What affects a populations size and growth

Question 7

What is community ecology?

Answer 7

How populations of species interact to form communities

Question 8

What is ecosystem ecology?

Answer 8

energy flow and nutrient cyclying, food chains

Question 9

What do ecologists do?

Answer 9

Use the scientific method

Question 10

Who uses correlation/causation?

Answer 10

ecologists

Question 11

What do abiotic factors affect?

Answer 11

Distribution of organisms

Question 12

How does temperature affect coral reefs?

Answer 12

coral bleaching

Question 13

How does temperature affect animals?

Answer 13

colder temperatures mean higher metabolic costs

Question 14

What does wind amplify?

Answer 14

Effects of temperature

Question 15

What does wind negatively affect?

Answer 15

Heat loss and water loss

Question 16

How is wind created?

Answer 16

temperature gradients

Question 17

How does water affect oceanic plants?

Answer 17

Different plants remain at different light levels

Question 18

What is salinity?

Answer 18

Salt in water

Question 19

How does light level relate to the equator?

Answer 19

Thinner atmosphere, more radiation

Question 20

What is the Coriolis Effect?

Answer 20

rainforests near equator, desserts near middle of planet, cold air near poles

Question 21

What is rain shadow?

Answer 21

Moist air pushed over mountains, drops as rain on other side