Organisms and their environment

Question 1

What are producers?

Answer 1

Producers are organisms that make their own food

Question 2

What are the three types of consumer

Answer 2

primary, secondary, tertiary consumers

Question 3

what is the percentage of energy passed down from one trophic level to the other

Answer 3

10%, 90% of energy is transferred to the energy store of the environment as heat. some of the energy is also lost due to being trapped in uneaten body parts, faeces and excretory products

Question 4

define carbon sink

Answer 4

caron sink is an area that stores carbon from the atmosphere for a long period of time. It stores more carbon than it releases.

Question 5

What are the two natural carbon sinks

Answer 5

forest and ocean

Question 6

carbon sink in forest

Answer 6

A large amount of carbon compounds is produced and stored in trees when they absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide during photosynthesis

Question 7

what are the two processes that make oceans the largest carbon sinks in the world?

Answer 7

solubility and photosynthesis

Question 8

why are carbon sinks important

Answer 8

they can reduce the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide which is a major cause of climate change