Section 3-1: Ecology

Question 1

Ecology

Answer 1

The scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment or surroundings

Question 2

What does the biosphere contain

Answer 2

The combined portions of the planet in which all of life exists, including land, water, and air or atmosphere

Question 3

Why do ecologists ask questions about events and organisms that range in complexity from an individual to the biosphere?

Answer 3

To understand relationships within the biosphere

Question 4

Species

Answer 4

A group of organisms so similar to one another that they prefer and produce fertile offspring

Question 5

Population

Answer 5

Species that interact together

Question 6

Populations of different species interact

Answer 6

Community

Question 7

Ecosystem

Answer 7

Group of organisms in a specific area and non living parts of their environment

Question 8

Biome

Answer 8

A group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities