Graded A+
ecology - ✅✅is the study of how organisms interact with each other and with
their enviornment
discovery approach - ✅✅ecologists make verifiable observations using this
approach
hypothesis - driven - ✅✅this kind of ecology science may be conducted in the
field or in the lab
enviornmentalism - ✅✅is the broad philosophy and social movement that
seeks to maintain environmental quality
market values - ✅✅raw materials (lumber, shells, etc), wetlands filter runoff
and treat waste, controlling erosion, recreation
nonmarket values - ✅✅scientific research, cultural value, teaching and learning
resources, intrinsic value
organismal ecology - ✅✅focuses on the ways that organism adapt to their
environments through physiology and behavior
organism - ✅✅is an individual living being
, population ecology - ✅✅is concerned with the factors that affect population
size, growth, and density
population - ✅✅is a group of individuals of the same species living in the same
place at the same time
community ecology - ✅✅focus on interactions among species
community - ✅✅consists of all the populations (of multiple species) living in a
particular place
ecosystem ecology - ✅✅is concerned with questions of energy flow and
chemical cycling
ecosystem - ✅✅is all the life living in a particular area together with all the
nonliving components
biosphere - ✅✅is the global ecosystem
the biosphere includes biotic and abiotic factors - ✅✅
biotic factors - ✅✅the living organisms of an ecosystem constitute its...
abiotic factors - ✅✅are the nonliving part of an ecosystem