What is Ecology?

What is Ecology?

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What is Ecology?

Ecology is the study of the environment. It involves studying how living things interact with each other. It also involves studying how living things interact with nonliving things.

What are Ecologists?

They study Ecology! They study:

• The diversity of organisms in an environment

• How nutrients, energy and materials cycle through the

  environment

• How environments develop and how weather and climate

  influence environments

Environment

The surroundings in which an organism lives. It

includes living and nonliving things.

Habitat

The environment in which an individual organism lives. In other words, a habitat is an organism’s home.

Ecosystem

The community of living things interacting with the nonliving parts of their environment. In other words, it includes living organisms together with the nonliving parts of the environment. The nonliving parts make up the physical features of the environment.

Species

A group of similar organisms. These organisms are so similar that they can breed and reproduce fertile offspring. Fertile offspring are organisms that are capable of reproducing a new generation of organisms.

Population

A group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area. Ecologists study populations to learn how members of the same species interact with each other.

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Surroundings in which an organism lives.

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

• Environment

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An organism's home

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

• Environment

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Community of living things interacting with nonliving things.

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

• Environment

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Group of similar organisms

• Environment

• Species

• Population

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Group of individuals of same species that live in same area.

• Environment

• Species

• Population

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Ecology is the study of

• living things of environment

• living things of environment

• how living things interact with nonliving things in environment

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What term do ecologist use to describe where an animal lives?

• Ecosystem

• Ecologist

• Habitat

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What is a species?

• Different animals that compete for the same resources

• Similar organisms that can reproduce with each other

• Group of organisms that live together