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   ocr: WHERE ORGANISMS LIVE IVING THINGS are adapted to exist in particular places. The climate (temperature, sunlight, and rainfall) affects the type of vegetation that grows, which in turn determines the animals that live there. An organism isa also affected by the soil type, whether the place is on dry land or under water, and the presence of other organisms competing for food and mates. Al huge habitat zone, such as an ocean or a desert, is called abiome. Similar biomes can exist on different continents that share the same conditions. Desert biomes, for example, exist in. America, Africa, Austral ...