Answer:
The correct answer is- habitat
Explanation:
Habitat is the place a particular organism lives. It is the natural environment that consists of living and non-living things where a species can survive because a habitat fulfills all the needs that a species require to live.
Animals and plants find food, shelter and their mate in their habitat like lake is the habitat of many fish species who can live there because the habitat gives them home, food and there they can reproduce to carry forward there generation.
A habitat can be small or large for example habitat for a parasite is the host body while habitat for a shark can be a wide area of oceans. Therefore, the correct answer is habitat is the area where a species lives and can thrive.
