It is a group of communities interacting with each other and the nonliving parts of their environment.
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Is a population a group of different organisms?
No, it is the same kind of organisms.
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What is a community?
All the populations that live in a certain place and can interact with one another.
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A community is a herd of just zebras.
False
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What is the difference between a population and a community?
A community is all the populations interacting with one another. And a population is just a group of the same kind of organisms.
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Name some examples of an ecosystem?
Desert, rotting log, rivers, lakes, ponds etc.
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Does a population of animals live in a certain place?
Yes
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Can a community be more than on kind of species?
Yes it can, it can be as big as a population of five different species or more.
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The sun is the source of energy in most ecosystems.
True
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How many processes occur in an ecosystem?
There are four processes.
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What are some nonliving parts of a ecosystem?
water, air and soil
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What is a population?
A group of the same kind of organisms living in a certain place.
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Can a community have for example a shark and a lion?
No, it can not because they have to be living in the same place which obviously they are not. A shark lives in the water and a lion lives in grasslands or safaries.
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When organisms die their bodies don't decompose, they just stay there.
False, they do decompose.
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What are the processes called?
Production of Energy, Transfer of Energy, Breakdown of Materials and Recycling
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Does a ecosystem have several diferent communities put together?
Yes it does.
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If you put a zebra and a giraffe together, is that a population?
No it is not because it has to be either just zebras or giraffes
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If the community has, for example a herd of lions and other wild beasts. What other animals are part of that community but can't be seen?
What is ants and termites.
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A community is only for wild beasts no other organism can be part of a community.
False, there are communities every where.
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What happens in the Transfer of Energy, during the processes.
The stored energy in the plants are transferred to animals that eat the plants. So the energy from the plant is transported to the animal.