EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Why can’t the producers in some ecosystems make an unlimited supply of organic material? Temperatures are too hot for photosynthesis Too many carnivores eat the producers Energy needed to make organic material is lost as heat One or more utrients is in short supply*****

Detailed explanation-2: -Producers are the base or first level in all food chains. There are many more producers in a food chain than consumers or decomposers because only 10% of the energy from each energy level is passed on to the next energy level.

Detailed explanation-3: -Producers, or autotrophs, make their own organic molecules. Consumers, or heterotrophs, get organic molecules by eating other organisms.

Detailed explanation-4: -Why can’t many producers in some ecosystems produce an unlimited supply of organic material? Producers often cannot produce an unlimited supply of organic material because 1 or more nutrients are in short supply.

Detailed explanation-5: -All ecosystems are dependent upon the activities of producers. These organisms – plants on land and algae on water – turn sunlight and inorganic matter into food.