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18.1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | the study of the interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving components of their environment |
| interdependence | the quality in which all organisms interact with other organsms in their surroundings and with the nonliving portion of their environment |
| ecological models | a model that ecologists use to deal with the complexity of ecologyq |
| biosphere | the broadest, most inclusive level of organization- a thing volume of Earth and its atmosphere that supports life |
| ecosystem | includes all of the organisms and the nonliving environment found in a particular place |
| community | all of the interacting organisms living in an area |
| population | includes all the members of a species that live in one place at one time |