Monae929 takes notes on Ecology.

What is Ecology, exactly? Ecology is the study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment. It's pretty cool if you think about it. We now know so much about the world around us that we didn't even know say, ten years ago, just from studying the world around us.

If you study an animals habitat, you will notice that it has two important factors, which are Abiotic Factors, and Biotic Factors. Abiotic Factors are the nonliving parts of an organism's environment.

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Tfklover reports on a great way to find some new things.

It's not likely that someone from the twenty-first century would get out a treasure map their father gave them and abandon everything to live on a ship and search the seven seas. In fact, it's not likely that there would even be a treasure map at all.

The fact is, there aren't too many pirates around here in this day and age, and there also aren't many treasure maps or hidden chests filled with gold and precious gems to search for. Being the adventurous sort, this always was a disappointment to me. But then, a family friend introduced me to the wonderful world of geocaching.

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