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Shmoop alert. Unidentified flying question has been spotted...

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Which word could fill in the blank so that the sentence below makes sense?

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In a working ecosystem, plants and animals blank in a self-sustaining cycle.

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And here are the potential answers...

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We don't need a background in ecology to figure this one out.

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The context clue, "self-sustaining cycle," lets us know that we're looking for a word

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that describes how plants and animals manage to live in the same place without completely

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destroying each other...

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Although no one seems to have had a talk with the Venus flytrap.

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Both "clash" and "collide" describe things slamming into each other...

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Which doesn't exactly get across the idea of peace and harmony.

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"Alternate" and "exchange" are on the right track, but both words describe things

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switching places rather than living together side by side.

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Since to "coexist" means to live in the same place at the same time,

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(D) is the correct answer.

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Shmoop would like to issue a formal apology to the Flytrap Anti-Defamation League for

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our prior comment.

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