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Students are to draw and write a descriptive paper about their ecosystem. The drawing should include details such as climate clues, appropriate living and non-living organisms present. The paper should include an appropriate description of their ecosystem including the climate, what living and non-living organisms are present, how the living organisms meet their needs for survival, and example of a food chain or web that exists in this environment, what types of changes could take place, and what those changes could do to the populations within that ecosystem.