Producers
Plants make their own food.
Who makes food
A grass plant stands in the sun. It needs no one to feed it.
How does a plant get its food?
What this lesson covers
The idea
Plants make their own food by photosynthesis, so they are called producers or autotrophs (auto = self, troph = food).
Who makes food
A grass plant stands in the sun. It needs no one to feed it.
How does a plant get its food?
- It makes its own by photosynthesis
- It eats other plants
- It gets it from the soil only
Make food
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Self-feeders
Plants make their own food by photosynthesis. So they are called producers or autotrophs.
Plants make their own food by photosynthesis, so they are producers or autotrophs (auto = self, troph = food).
Notes
Producers (autotrophs): plants, which make their own food by photosynthesis.
Check yourself
Organisms that make their own food are called …
The word 'autotroph' means …
Plants make their own food by …
In a food chain, producers are …
- consumers. Consumers cannot make their own food.
- decomposers. Decomposers break down dead matter.
- producers — correct. Yes!
- self-feeder (auto = self, troph = food) — correct. Yes!
- other-feeder. That is heterotroph.
- rotten-food feeder. That is saprotroph.
- respiration. Respiration uses oxygen to release energy. Food is made by photosynthesis.
- photosynthesis — correct. Yes!
- pollination. Pollination carries pollen.
- herbivores. Herbivores eat plants.
- carnivores. Carnivores eat animals.
- plants — correct. Yes!