EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Community is an collection of populations of different species of plants, animals, bacteria and fungi, which live in a particular area and interact with one another. Each biotic community has a specific composition and structure e.g., pond community.

Detailed explanation-2: -A group of interacting populations forms a community. A community and its physical environment together form the ecosystem. When many ecosystems that are similar to each other interact with each other on a large scale, it is called a biome.

Detailed explanation-3: -Scientists define community as a group of populations that live in a particular area and interact with one another.

Detailed explanation-4: -A population is a group of the same species living in the same area. A community is a group of different species living in the same area.

Detailed explanation-5: -The correct option is A. community. Population is defined as a group of individual of the same species, plant or animal, inhabiting a given area. Many such populations that are interacting with each other together form the community.