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1.12.A classify living and nonliving things based upon whether they have basic needs and produce young;

1.12.B describe and record examples of interactions and dependence between living and nonliving components in terrariums or aquariums;

2.12.A describe how the physical characteristics of environments, including the amount of rainfall, support plants and animals within an ecosystem;

3.12.A explain how temperature and precipitation affect animal growth and behavior through migration and hibernation and plant responses through dormancy;

6.12.A investigate how organisms and populations in an ecosystem depend on and may compete for biotic factors such as food and abiotic factors such as availability of light and water, range of temperatures, or soil composition;