EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Producers, who make their own food using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, make up the bottom of the trophic pyramid. Primary consumers, mostly herbivores, exist at the next level, and secondary and tertiary consumers, omnivores and carnivores, follow.

Detailed explanation-2: -The order of a food chain looks like this – sun (or light energy), primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Level 1: Plants (producers) Level 2: Animals that eat plants or herbivores (primary consumers) Level 3: Animals that eat herbivores (secondary consumers, carnivores) Level 4: Animals that eat carnivores (tertiary consumers, carnivores)

Detailed explanation-4: -At the base of the food chain lie the primary producers. The primary producers are autotrophs, and are most often photosynthetic organisms (such as plants, algae, or cyanobacteria). The organisms that eat the primary producers are called primary consumers.

Detailed explanation-5: -The producers are always at the beginning of the food chain, bringing energy into the ecosystem. Through photosynthesis, the producers create their own food in the form of glucose, but also create the food for the other organisms in the ecosystem. The herbivores come next, then the carnivores.