3—What is a Coastal Ecosystem?
Here is a great picture of some of the plants and animals that live together in an estuary. They form a kind of community. The community you live in has homes, schools, stores, businesses, and maybe farms. The community these animals live in has water, air, plants and animals--all living together, and all depending on one another. Their community is called an "ecosystem."

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