EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Producers, also known as autotrophs, make their own food. They make up the first level of every food chain. Autotrophs are usually plants or one-celled organisms.

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: -The plants use these sugars for energy to grow and survive. Producers are always the first organism in a food chain. They provide energy for other living things in the food chain. Even though not all animals eat producers, all animals rely on producers to change sunlight into usable energy.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first organism or first link in the food chain is a producer. Producers are plants; they can be grasses, fruits, trees, vegetables, or ocean algae and other aquatic plants.

Detailed explanation-5: -Every food chain starts with producers because only plants are capable of changing light energy into chemical energy, which is then used by both plants and other consumers.