Will they always be there or are the trifids coming?
2006-07-05 04:22:18 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
good question you ask and rubbish answer i give as i have no idea sorry xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2006-07-05 23:59:33 · answer #1 · answered by candypants 3 · 2⤊ 7⤋
Plants can be considered at the bottom of the food chain for several reasons. One- they produce their own food for the most part making it difficult for them to move higher on the food chain. Second-they are stationary and cannot move to get food or to get away from predators also putting them pretty low on the food chain.
Hope that helps
2006-07-05 04:27:30 · answer #2 · answered by thatchickwithredhair 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of all the organisms that make up the food chain, the plants are the only ones that can make use of sunlight to prepare their own food-autotrophs. The successive levels depend on the previous ones for food....like-herbivores on plants, carnivores on herbivores and so on....
Its is the only logical way the food chain can be organised.
2006-07-05 04:27:22 · answer #3 · answered by Tauba 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are at the bottom of the food chain because they haven't evolved to eat humans yet.
A carnivorous plant would not be at the bottom of the food chain. Way to go Venus Fly Trap!
2006-07-05 04:25:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, plants are at the bottom of the food chain because they produce their own food through photosynthesis and they do not take in any living organisms to survive. Even though they take up nutrients/elements such as Nitrogen, these are not considered living organisms.
2006-07-05 04:28:11 · answer #5 · answered by kameron_richardson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because most plants eat water and sunlight not other animals, so if you think about it food cycles are circles! Some plants, like the Venus Fly Trap, eat bugs or dead meat so they're not at the bottom!
2006-07-05 04:27:10 · answer #6 · answered by lindsey_loo_13 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason why any or all plants are at the bottom of the food chain is because every thing eats and live off of them.
If there was no plants nothing can live. Plants are food, give us air and feeds all small living things.
(small animals live off of plants.
med animals live off of small animals.
big animals live off of med animals. ect...)
That is the way of life.
2006-07-05 04:45:01 · answer #7 · answered by fernley_2005 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sundew isn't. YEAH!!! But they are there because our whole food chain revolves around plants. I really can't explain. DId you pay attention in school? Ok, let me help you understand. Deer eat corn. Human eats deer. Bear eats human. etc. As you can see, it is the root of the food chain.
2006-07-05 04:37:00 · answer #8 · answered by QuestionAskerAwaitingAnAnswer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought soil and water were at the bottom of the food chain.
2006-07-05 04:26:12 · answer #9 · answered by Stammerman! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most of them are not carnivores and are unable to move rapidly they are by nature exposed to attack....some fight back with poisonous toxins, others produce sharp barbs as a defence, but overall, the majority are defenceless and as such easy prey.
2006-07-05 20:17:58 · answer #10 · answered by Miss Prim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you think about it, a plant can't really "fend" for itself.
2006-07-05 04:25:52 · answer #11 · answered by S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋