Question

Food chain is a sequence of organisms through which energy is transferred in the form of food by the process of one organism consuming the other. It shows the relationship of producer and consumer, i,e.,'who eats whom'. Thus it is a series of organisms taking part at various biotic levels from the Producer and ends in consumer'

(i) Why are green plants known as producers ?

(ii) 'Man is only a consumer'. Justify the statement by giving any two reasons.

Answer 1

(i) Green plants have chlorophyll in their leaves due to which they can synthesize their own food in sunlight.

(ii) Consumers are the organisms which depend on others for their survival, or food. Consumers are herbivores, carnivores or omnivores. Man is omnivore which depends on others for its food either plants or flesh.