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In their exploration, students learn:
- What an ecosystem is
- The roles of primary producer, consumer, and decomposer in a food chain
- That many food chains connect within an ecosystem to create a food web
- That all species have a niche or play a role within an ecosystem
- The relationship between predators and prey
- How physical and behavioral adaptations help a species to survive
- That in a stable population, the birth rate and the death rate are about the same over time
- That limiting factors in the environment restrict the growth of populations
- That individuals must survive long enough to reproduce in order for a population to survive
- That some of the things that threaten the survival of all living things are competition for food, disease, predators, and human activities
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