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Explain why producers are always the first tropic level in a food chain or food web?
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According to my Biology text book a producer is defined as: an organism that uses energy from light (or inorganic chemicals) to convert carbon dioxide to organic compounds. They are the first tropic level because they are able to make their own food through photosynthesis, meaning they do not depend on others for food; all other organisms in the community depend on them for food, either directly (an animal eating them) or indirectly (by eating an organism that ate a producer).
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Is a consumer always at the bottom of the food chain?
The consumer is always at the top, or end of the food chain. Producers are at the bottom, or beginning of the food chain.
What kind of organisms are always at the bottom of the food chain?
producers
Which are the consumers in the food chain?
depends but they are always higher than producers
What can you infer about the place of producers in every food chain?
They are always at the bottom because they are the start of the food chain.
Why is the manufacturers always first in the food chain?
There not. The producers are always first so they can produce for the consumers:)
Why are consumers at the bottom of the food chain?
Producers are placed at the bottom of the food chain because the do not eat other living organisms and instead get their energy though the sun.
Why are consumers always listed after producers in a food chain?
because that the way it goes
Why are the producers always the start of the food chain?
If you have a food chain then the chain must have a beginning (where the food is made) and an end (where the food is finally all used up). Thius in a food chain the "producers" of the food (the plants) are ALWAYS the start. The plants make food using CO2 from the air, Water from the ground and the energy they collect from Sunlight. It is the passing on of this energy from the Sun that is the chain.
What a primary producers?
Primary producers are plants or foliage that are at the beginning of every food chain/web. A primary producer is always eaten by a herbivore in ecology.
Which group of organism is always found at the base of a food chain or food web?
The producers is always found at the base of a food chain, but food webs can start from any species and end at any species, so, there is no "bases" at the food web. The producers are basically those which can produce food by its own. A common example would be plants
What descirbes both a food chain and food web?
Explain how producers consumers and decomposers all have an ecosystem support the population within it
What does a Producers in a food chain?
'Producers' are suppliers of food chain. Producers generate their own food and are not dependent on others. Producers are usually plants (green plants)
