Ecology and Geography (Study guide) PART II

_____________________ is the science that studies living beings and their relationship with the environment, meaning, with their habitat.

• Ecology
• Cartography
• Paleontology
• Autoecology

____________ are any living components in an ecosystem that affect organisms in relationships like competition, commensalism, parasitism predation, and mutualism. They’re divided into autotrophs, heterotrophs, and decomposers.

• Abiotic factors
• Emergent factors
• Biotic factors
• Population factors

____________ refer to the physical and chemical conditions in the environment, such as climate, temperature, the salinity of water, minerals in the soil.

• Emergent factors
• Biotic factors
• Population factors
• Abiotic factors

Which of these is not a branch of ecology?

• Autoecology (Organism ecology)
• Synecology (Community ecology)
• Ecosystem ecology
• Ecogeography

A basic ecological concept refers to "a group of organisms of the same species occupying a given area and performing genes exchange".

• Organism
• Population
• Ecosystem
• Community

_________________ occurs between organisms that require the same resources, which are limited.

• Amensalism
• Commensalism
• Competition
• Mutuality

The process of _____________________ is when an organism feeds on another.

• Predation
• Amensalism
• Commensalism
• Mutuality

The __________________ is one of the most important parameters that ecologists try to know because it measures the result of births, deaths, immigration, and emigration that affect the size of the population changing over time.

• Population growth
• Population structure
• Distribution pattern
• Abiotic factors

_____________________ are a set of populations of different species that interact and share a common point in space that is called habitat.

• Organism
• Communities
• Population
• Ecosystem

This factor that regulates population growth is when one member is affected negatively, for example, plants that feed on others, like a vine that usually plague.

• Predation
• Commensalism
• Mutuality
• Amensalism