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Question 1

Ecology is organized according to the scale at which one studies things. What does scale mean in this context

Answer 1

scale= at what level individual -> population -> community -> ecosystem -> landscape

Question 2

Tadpole alone study is on what scale

Answer 2

Individual level

Question 3

Studying a group of organism in the same species is what scale

Answer 3

Population scale. (Studying a group of tadpoles). Population ecology is the topic

Question 4

Community Ecology

Answer 4

is a group of all organisms that live in a certain environment/habitat. So not only tadpoles, but plants, other species etc. Example: do the number of fish increase relative to the number of tadpoles.

Question 5

Ecosystem ecology

Answer 5

ecosystem is study of sort of everything. Deals with flows of energy, nutrients, carbon and nitrogen cycles. Does not track animals but looks at cycles and stuff like that.

Question 6

Landscape ecology

Answer 6

Interactions among ecosystem.