How Living Things Share Resources

Investigate how organisms and populations in an ecosystem depend on and may compete for biotic factors such as food and abiotic factors such as availability of light and water, range of temperatures, or soil composition.

Part of The student knows that interdependence occurs between living systems and the environment

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Ecosystems and Their Needs

By the end of this lesson, you will investigate how organisms and populations depend on and compete for resources. An ecosystem is a community of living things interacting with each other and with their nonliving surroundings in one area, like a pond, a prairie, or a patch of woods.

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