Question

A student is observing a sample of pond water and provides the following description in her observations.“I see euglena and paramecium swimming around in the drop of water. A daphnia is feeding on a clump of algae. I see air bubbles around the small clump of algae.”Would you describe what the student saw as a community or an ecosystem? Explain what clue(s) helped you decide.

Answer 1

The student is viewing a community.

Step-by-step explanation:

As we can see in the question above, the student is visualizing a group of living beings of different species that share the same environment and that interact with each other. We call this type of situation a Community.

An ecosystem, on the other hand, would be the set of several communities, which is not presented in the question above.