Gr 8 Natural Sciences Ch 1.2: What is ecology?

What is the definition of ecology?

What is a community in ecology?

What is the term for the global ecological system integrating all living beings and their relationships?

What is the term for a scientist who studies the relationships between organisms and their environments?

What is the term for a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding?

What is population ecology?

What is the term for a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment?

At which level of ecological organization is a group of individuals of the same species that live in a specific area at a specific time and can interbreed found?

What is the smallest collective unit of living organisms studied in ecology?

What is the term for the study of interactions between different populations in a specific area?

What is the largest collective unit of living organisms and their environment?

What type of factors make up the non-living environment in an ecosystem?

Why might the hippo population in the St. Lucia estuary decrease?

What is the term for the study of how energy flows and nutrients cycle between living and non-living components?

What is the reason why the zebra in Kruger National Park and those in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi game reserve are different populations?

What is the term for the global sum of all ecosystems?

What is the main focus of an ecologist's study?

Which of the following is an example of a population?

What is the term for the study of how living organisms interact with each other and their environment?

What is the level of ecological organization that includes a group of different species living in the same area?

What is the term for the non-living components of an ecosystem?

Which of the following is an example of an ecosystem?

What is the term for the interactions between organisms and their environment?

What is the main difference between a population and a community?

What is the primary focus of community ecology?

What is the main difference between an ecosystem and a community?

What is an example of a factor that can influence the size of a population?

Why might the impalas in a game reserve be considered a population?

What is the term for the study of large-scale ecological and environmental processes?

Why might the rapid growth of the zebra population in Kruger National Park be attributed to?

What is the main difference between a population of zebras in Kruger National Park and a population of zebras in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi game reserve?

What would happen to the hippo population in the St. Lucia estuary if the river dried up?

What is the primary focus of population ecology?

Which level of ecological organization includes a group of different species living in the same area?

What is the main difference between a population of impalas in a game reserve and a population of impalas in another game reserve?

What is the term for the study of how living organisms interact with each other and their environment?

Which of the following would NOT be considered a factor influencing population growth?

What is the term for the non-living components of an ecosystem?

At which level of ecological organization would you study the interactions between different populations in a specific area?

What is the term for the study of large-scale ecological and environmental processes?

What is the primary focus of ecosystem ecology?

Why might the population of impalas in a game reserve decrease?

What is the main difference between a population and a community?

What is the level of ecological organization that includes all living beings and their interactions with the environment?

What is the primary focus of biosphere ecology?

What is the main difference between the zebra population in Kruger National Park and the zebra population in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi game reserve?

What is the primary focus of community ecology?

What is the main difference between a community and an ecosystem?

What is the primary focus of an ecologist's study?

What level of ecological organization includes multiple populations of different species?

What is the main difference between a population and a community?

What is the term for the study of how energy flows and nutrients cycle between living and non-living components?

What is the main difference between two populations of the same species living in different areas?

What level of ecological organization is the largest collective unit of living organisms and their environment?

What is the term for the non-living components of an ecosystem?

What is the primary focus of ecosystem ecology?

What is the primary focus of studying a community in ecology?

What would be the most likely cause of a decrease in the hippo population in the St. Lucia estuary?

What is the primary difference between a population and a community?

What is the level of ecological organization that includes all living beings and their interactions with the environment?

What is the primary focus of ecosystem ecology?

Why might the zebra population in Kruger National Park be different from the zebra population in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi game reserve?

What is an example of a factor that can influence the size of a population?

What is the primary focus of biosphere ecology?