Unit A Section 2

Question 1

Producer

Answer 1

a producer Produces food and energy for themselves

Question 2

Consumer

Answer 2

seek out and eat (consume) other living things for food

Question 3

Carnivore

Answer 3

eats other animals

Question 4

Herbivore

Answer 4

eats only plants/producers

Question 5

Omnivore

Answer 5

eats plants and animals

Question 6

Scavenger

Answer 6

organisms that feed on dead or decaying plant or animal matter

Question 7

Food Web

Answer 7

are a combination of several food chains.

Question 8

Primary Consumer

Answer 8

herbivores

Question 9

Secondary Consumer

Answer 9

carnivores and omnivores

Question 10

Carbon Cycle

Answer 10

The carbon cycle is the movement of carbon from the land to the atmosphere and back to the land

Question 11

Ways carbon is put into the enviorment

Answer 11

Biotic factors exhaling
Burning of fossil fuels (non-renewable resources) or forest fires.
Decomposers (plankton changes into fossil fuels)

Question 12

Reasons carbon is necessary for all life to exist

Answer 12

Plants use carbon dioxide
Consumers release carbon dioxide

Question 13

How is carbon taken out of the enviorment?

Answer 13

Carbon is taken out of the environment by photosynthesis

Question 14

Water Cycle

Answer 14

The water cycle is the continuous movement of water through an ecosystem.

Question 15

evaporation and transpiration

Answer 15

Water goes from Earth to the atmosphere

Question 16

condensation and precipitation

Answer 16

Water returns to the Earth

Question 17

groundwater

Answer 17

water in the soil

Question 18

run-off

Answer 18

Water that moves into lakes, rivers, oceans, streams