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Students read journal entry from a Gal??pagos field researcher, find examples of five ecological relationships (competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism) and take notes on the details they find in the entry using a note-taking sheet.

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ecology, the galapagos islands

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5th - 8th
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Science
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