Producers get the energy they need from the sun. Consumers get their energy from the plants and animals that they eat. Decomposers get energy from eating dead plants and animals.<span />
Colonized countries are forced to rely on manufactured goods from their mother countries and prevents development of industry.
10000000 km per second which is really fast lol
I think if the whale population decreased the surface fish populations would decline due to reduced populations of algae. This can be simply explained by the fact that, if the whale population is decreased, it means that the nitrogen rich feces that is supply nutrients to the algae would also decrease and therefore decrease the population of the algae and as a result the population of of the surface fish would also decline.
Sound waves are both compressional and longitudinal, (although we frequently draw them as transverse waves).
Longitudinal waves are where the particles of matter collide into one another, pushing them into the next and then oscillating back. This is how sound travels. This is also why sound can only travel through a medium, it cannot travel through a vacuum, as is shown here: