Kelp Observation

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The animal I observe is living in an ecosystem that is made up of plants and other animals. It is living in an kelp ecosystem. The animal has other organisms living with it in the kelp ecosystem. It has fish and kelp and some sharks. The fish gets food from the kelp. It also uses the kelp to hide in. It also chased off some smaller fish from it’s own territory. When the fish was hiding, it was interacting with the kelp and not interacting with other fish. Also, all ecosystems must have a biological community. It is where two or more groups of species interact with two or more other species. This shows that it is a biological community. The fish had more of it’s species and it was interacting with other species. The environment of the ecosystem

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