Living Things and Their Habitats

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Ecology is about nature and life. It is about the relationships between living things and their environment. Someone who studies ecology is an ecologist. An ecologist studies living things and the way they relate to their surroundings.

This toad is part of an ecosystem. An ecosystem is like...

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