This year in science, we’ll be learning about the ecology of our wonderful state, Kentucky. You might be thinking, “What exactly is ecology?” Ecology is a type of science that studies the relationships between living organisms in an environment, which you can think of as the natural world around us. So, before we go any further, we need to think about what living things are in our environment. Some things are easy to identify as living: us, the people around us, our dogs, our cats, even our pet fish. But what are some other things that may not immediately come…