Producers are organisms that can produce their own energy without consuming other organisms. For example, plants. Consumers are organisms that get their energy from consuming other consumers, and other animals. For example, lions get their energy from eating other animals.
The molecules in the water slow down so much that the attractions put them into fixed positions
Yes, they are.
Minerals are the result of rock metamorphic cycles and other volcanic activities that result to these mixture of different minerals. Minerals can also be the cause of some biogeochemical cycles that occurs on the earth's different spheres.
False. An atom becomes an ion when it's number of electrons changes not the number of protons.