Ecology Exam 1

Question 1

What is ecology?

Answer 1

The study of ecological systems. How they work and how they affect each other

Question 2

What is environmental science

Answer 2

a broader field that incorporates many others sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology

Question 3

what will ecological research do?

Answer 3

It will help us protect the earth from human activities

Question 4

Individuals

Answer 4

The most fundamental unit of ecology

moves energy, alters resources

propagates itself

Question 5

Species

Answer 5

individuals that are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile off spring

Question 6

studying the ecology of individuals is to study…

Answer 6

how adaptations/characteristics of an individuals morphology affect their fitness

Question 7

population

Answer 7

Members of the same species living in the same place at the same time with the potential of interbreeding

Question 8

How can we measure populations?

Answer 8

geographic range

abundance

density

composition (demographics)