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Ecology, in a very simple term, is a science that _____(1)_____ the interdependent, mutually reactive and interconnected relationships _____(2)_____ the organisms and _____(3)_____ physical environment on the one hand and among the organisms on the other hand. _____(4)_____ the term 'ecology' was first coined and used by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1869, a few conceptual terms _____(5)_____ already proposed to reveal relationships _____(6)_____ organisms and their environment. For example, French zoologist I. G. Hilaire used the term 'ethology' _____(7)_____ study of the relations of _____(8)_____ organisms within the family and society in the aggregate and in the community. British naturalist St. George Jackson Mivart proposed the term 'hexicology' with regard to the study of the relations _____(9)_____ living creatures to other organisms and their environment as regards the nature of the locality they frequent, the temperatures and the _____(10)_____ of light which suit them, and their relations to other organisms as enemies, rivals, or accidental and involuntary benefactors.
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