What is the definition of ecology?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Question

it is for my junior high science report

Answer 1

Ecology is the study of plants and animals in relation to each other and their environment (surroundings).

Answer 2

1. The environment as it relates to living organisms

2. The branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment

Answer 3

The scientific description of where animals and plants live.

According to Wikipedia:  

"Ecology (from Greek: οίκος, oikos, "household"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as isolation (sunlight), climate, and geology, and biotic factors, which are other organisms that share its habitat.

The word "ecology" is often used more loosely in such terms as social ecology and deep ecology and in common parlance as a synonym for the natural environment or environmentalism. Likewise "ecologic" or "ecological" is often taken in the sense of environmentally friendly.

The term ecology or oekologie was coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866, when he defined it as "the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment."  Haeckel did not elaborate on the concept, and the first significant textbook on the subject (together with the first university course) was written by the Danish botanist, Eugenius Warming. For this early work, Warming is often identified as the founder of ecology."

An ecology can vary from the desert, to the ocean to the inside of a pillow and the dust mites and fungus that lives there.

An ecology has a type of terrain or environment, specific animals and plants that live in it and a food chain that connects them.

For example in a desert ecology a gopher hunts insects who thrive off the decaying plants and animals.  They live underground in burrows and are hunted by hawks and snakes.  Some snakes live in underground burrows also and the birds live in trees, some even hollow out cactus.  All these elements belong to the desert ecology.

Answer 4

is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their environment