Question

What is greek word for ecology?
A) Ethology
B) Oekologie
C) Synecology
D) Hexicology

Answer 1

It is the study of relationships between organisms and their environment. Some of the most pressing problems in human affairs are expanding populations, food scarcities, environmental pollution including global warming, extinctions of plant and animal species and all the attendant sociological and political problems.

Complete answer:
The word ecology was coined by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, in 1866, who applied the term ecology to the relation of the animal both to its organic as well as inorganic environment. The words come from The Greek ‘oikos’ meaning household, home or a place to live and ‘Logos’ means the study of to donate such relationships between the organisms and their environment. Thus, literally ecology is the study of organisms at home. Ecology deals with the study of flow of energy and materials in the environment. With the study of nature and its function. It also deals with the exchange of various materials between the biotic and abiotic components of the environment such as biogeochemical cycles. Ecological thoughts are a derivative of established currents in philosophy particularly from ethics and politics.

So the correct answer is option B' i.e., Oekologie.

Note: Ecology deals with the organisms and its relationship with environment or surroundings.