Question

give an example of a food chain that doesn't start with green plants​

Answer 1

detritus food chain does not start with a plant.

Detritus food chain is the type of food chain that starts with dead organic materials.

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Answer 2

Answer:

There are two types of food chains; grazing food chain and detritus food chain.

Grazing food chain starts from the living green plants, goes to grazing herbivores (that feed on living plant materials with their (predators), and on to carnivores (animal eaters).

Detritus food chain goes from dead organic matter into microorganisms and then to organisms feeding on detritus (detritivores) and their predators. Such ecosystems are thus less dependent on direct solar energy. These depend chiefly on the influx of organic matter produced in another system. For example, such type of food chain operates in the decomposing accumulated litter in a temperate forest.

Thus detritus food chain does not start with a