AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Grass produces its own food through photosynthesis. It is a primary producer at the bottom of the food chain. Primary producers are the 1st trophic level. Grasshoppers are herbivores that eat grass.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plants make their own food through a process called photosynthesis. Using the energy from the sun, water and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and nutrients, they chemically make their own food. Since they make or produce their own food they are called producers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Grass are autotrophs and also the producers which form the first step in a food chain. They fix up the solar energy and make it available for heterotrophs or the consumers. This energy supports all the activities of the living world. The producers capture 1% of the energy of sunlight and convert it to food energy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Producers and Consumers Any organism that can make its own food is an autotroph and a producer, and this includes all grasses, trees, vegetables, fruits, ferns, mosses, algae, phytoplankton and some types of bacteria.

Detailed explanation-5: -Grasses are in the magnoliophyte division because they are flowering plants, and are in the liliopsida class, which are the monocotyledons. Grasses are in the subclass commelinidae and the order cyperales. There are at least 2, 239 different types of grasses identified by scientists.