why are called producer
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Plants are called producers. This is because they produce their own food! They do this by using light energy from the Sun, carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil to produce food - in the form of glucouse/sugar. The process is called photosynthesis.
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Plants are called producers. This is because they produce their own food! They do this by using light energy from the Sun, carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil to produce food - in the form of glucouse/sugar. The process is called photosynthesis.This is because plants are the only photosynthesizing organisms, apart from certain photosynthetic bacteria and protists, which are the source of food and energy for the entire living Kingdom. Plants are eaten and consumed by herbivorous animals which are intern preyed upon by carnivorous animals. These animals as well as the plants can be decomposed after they die by the saprophytic fungi. So as a result plants are the sources from which every animal, directly or indirectly, obtains energy. And plants obtain this energy from the Sun. Using solar energy plants produce food material for animals and decomposers. Plants produce food for themselves too and that's why they are called autotrophs.
This is the reason why plants are known as the primary producers of the ecosystem. Be it a tropical rainforest, a desert or the ocean, every ecosystem has a plant source. These are the producers and the foundation of every food chain.
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