Why do food chains usually begin with a plant species?

Answer 1

Actually, the food chain begins with the Sun. Producers are just the primary energy source, which use photosynthesis to make food. Herbivores get their energy from the plant's sugar produced during photosynthesis.

Answer 2

Its because every food chain starts with something small and not very strong , and in the animal world if its weak and small its not eating meat , so for example ... grass rabbit fox pretty simple but rabbits arn't strong and eat grass and vegetables and fox eats meat and can be sometimes the same size as a rabbit .

Answer 3

All animals eat some other organism, whether a plant, another animal, or both. The organism that an animal eats is by definition lower on the food chain. Therefore no food chain can start with an animal. Only green plants do not have to eat other organisms. They create their own food our of sunlight, water, carbon dioxide, and various minerals that get absorbed along with the water.

Answer 4

Because they can't eat any other living things.

Answer 5

It doesnt the sun does because the plant makes food from the sunlight. Hope that helps

Answer 6

because animals that eat only plants or meat and plants eat it

Answer 7

They usually start with a green plant because the small animals eat the green plants first, then that animal gets eaten by a bigger animal and so on

Answer 8

because green plants are producers which use energy to feed consumers

Answer 9

plants are the primary producers they prepare their own food and are a source of food for the other animals

Answer 10

Food chains