Answer:
increasing bacterial activity as organic matter decays
Explanation:
that would be your answer
C) Producers convert light energy into chemical energy.
The answer to your first question is A - A possible explanation for events using prior knowledge.
Inferring something from data means that we're making a possible explanation for something with using our prior knowledge.
To answer your second question - the question is stated in a weird way. It could either be B - the amount of soil od D - amount of time. For neither of those does it mention whether or how does the student take them into account.
I would go with D in the second question however.
Answer:
Primary consumers
Explanation:
They eat the producers which are the plants.