Chapter 50

1. Explain why the field of ecology is a multidisciplinary science.
2. Distinguish among physiology, ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology.
3. Describe the relationship between ecology and evolution.
4. Explain the importance of temperature, water, light, soil, and wind to living organisms.
5. Explain the principle of allocation.
6. Describe how environmental changes may produce behavioral, physiological, morphological, or adaptive responses in organisms.
7. Explain the concept of environmental grain and under what situation(s) a single environment may be both coarse-grained and fine-grained.
8. Describe the characteristics of the major biomes: tropical forest, savanna, desert, chaparral, temperate grassland, temperate forest, taiga, tundra.
9. Compare and contrast the types of freshwater communities.
10. Using a diagram, identify the various zones found in the marine environment.