Need answers soon 1. why do consumers depend on producers? why do producers need decomposers? 2. starting from the sun, can you create a food chain of three organisms? 3. how do temperature, sunlight, and salinity (all abiotic factors) influence life in aquatic ecosystems? 4. how does climate affect ecosystems and the life within them? 5. how does primary and secondary succession change ecosystems? can you provide an example? 6. what is carrying capacity? what factors could influence the carrying capacity of a population? 7. how do invasive species disrupt non-native ecosystems? 8. can you think of two things you do each day that affects the environment around you? 9. can you describe some of the paths carbon takes through the environment? 10. which renewable resource is not safe for the environment and why?