Question

(a) Explain why plants are the start of most food webs.​

Answer 1

Answer

A food chain describes how energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem. At the basic level there are plants that produce the energy, then it moves up to higher-level organisms like herbivores. ... Plants that have photosynthesis are supplying us with the first product of the food chain.

Answer 2

Answer:

because the are the primary producers which can perform photosynthesis other than phytoplankton and produce carbohydrates in various forms which is the main source of energy for all the primary consumers and organism on higher level

plus plants are more efficient in photosynthesis compared to phytoplankton as a whole

Explanation:

there are some food chains which actually either start from dead plants or animal which us called as detritus its called detritus food chain or decomposition food chain and some marine food chain start with algae or phytoplankton