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

\water cycle

Answer 11

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

Question 12

condensation and precipitation

Answer 12

Water returns to the Earth

Question 13

groundwater

Answer 13

water in the soil

Question 14

run-off

Answer 14

Water that moves into lakes, rivers, oceans, streams

Question 15

evaporation and transpiration

Answer 15

Water goes from Earth to the atmosphere

Question 16

ways carbon is put into the enviorment

Answer 16

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

Question 17

How is carbon necesarry for life to live

Answer 17

Plants use carbon dioxide
Consumers release carbon dioxide