These are the answers for the Unit 2 Ecology Lesson 17 Ecology Unit Test. You may check it to make sure I got these right. 1. C 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. B 8. B 9. D 10. B 11. A 12. C 13. D 14. A 15. D 16. B 17. C 18. D 19. Competition 20. Climate weather 21. Secondary Sucession
D. They both need nutrients to carry our life functions.
Explanation;
-Producers always start every food chain. A consumer, also called a heterotroph, is an organism that cannot make its own food. It must eat producers or other organisms for energy.
-Plants or producers with the help of carbon dioxide and sunlight, synthesize food. This process is called photosynthesis. Consumers cannot synthesize food on their own, so they depend on producers for their food. Consumers consume food synthesized by the producers/autotrophs.
