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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The producers are placed in the first trophic level, primary consumers in the second trophic level, and secondary consumers in the third trophic level. The grass is the producer and gazelle feeds on it thus it is the primary consumer.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most basic trophic level is producers-plants such as underwater bay grasses and free-floating algae that make their own food through photosynthesis. Producers are the basis of all food and influence the production of all other organisms.

Detailed explanation-4: -Like all plants, grasses are producers. Remember that a producer is a living thing that makes its own food. All food chains begin with producers.

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.