Ecology

• Ecology: the study of how organisms interact with their environments
• Levels of Ecology: Organisms, Populations, Community, Ecosystem
• Organisms: individual living being
• Populations

  • A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular area
• Community: All the populations of different species that inhabit a particular area
• Ecosystem: All the forms of life in a certain area and all the nonliving factors as well