Ecology

Name the term: the scientific study of the interactions between organisms and the environment; interactions determine distribution and abundance of organisms

Name the term: nonliving components

Name the term: living components

Name the term: studies how an organism’s physiology and behavior meet environmental challenges

Name the term: focuses on factors affecting how many individuals of a species live in an area

Name the term: deals with the whole array of interacting species in a community

Name the term: emphasizes energy flow and chemical cycling among the various biotic and abiotic components

Name the term: deals with arrays of ecosystems and how they are arranged in a geographic region and how they interact

Name the term: global ecosystem, the sum of all the planet’s ecosystems

What are the four major abiotic components of climate?

• temperature, water, sunlight, and wind

• soil, water, sunlight, and wind

• temperature, water, sunlight, and photosynthesis

• temperature, water, sunlight, and natural disasters