Points to Consider
- A healthy reproductive system is important if you plan to have children when you are
older. The birth of children, in turn, is one of the main factors that affect the growth
of a population. We turn our attention next to ecology. - Ecology includes the study of populations. What factors do you think affect population
growth? How might a rapidly growing population affect its environment?
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