Nature of Ecology

Question 1

Ecology

Answer 1

the study of biotic and abiotic factors and the way they interact in the environment in the world

Question 2

ecosystem

Answer 2

the biotic community and its abiotic environment functioning as a system

Question 3

biotic

Answer 3

applied to the living component of an ecosystem

Question 4

abiotic

Answer 4

nonliving, component of the environment that includes soil, water, light, air, nutrients…

Question 5

population

Answer 5

a group of individuals of the same species living in a given area at a given time

Question 6

community

Answer 6

a group of interacting plants and animals inhabiting a given area

Question 7

landscape

Answer 7

study of structure, function and change in a heterogenous landscape composed of interacting ecosystems

Question 8

biome

Answer 8

major regional ecological community of plants and animals usually corresponds with plant ecologists classification of plant formations and life zones

Question 9

biosphere

Answer 9

thin layer about earth in which living organisms exist

Question 10

hypothesis

Answer 10

proposed explanation for a phenomenon; we should be able to test it, accepting or rejecting based on experimentation

Question 11

scientific method

Answer 11

observations, question, hypothesis, predictions, hypothesis testing.