Invaders of the Ecosystem

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Think of a pond with water, rocks, and mud. Animals live there. Plants grow all around it. Rain falls into the pond, or the sun shines above it.

A pond is an ecosystem. Ecosystems are places where living things—animals and plants—exist with nonliving things, such as...

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