why are plants are called producers?

Answer 1

they are called producers because they produce food, they capture sunlight and turn it into edible form of energy, which the animals and plants use to live.
Sun is the only source of energy for the living things even for us humans, but only plants can transform it into edible energy, this energy we consume directly by eating fruits, and other plant products, or indirectly when we eat meat.

Answer 2

As others have said, plants are the only living beings (apart from some chemotroph organisms) that are able to synthesize organic compounds (i.e. the ones that us consumers use as food) from inorganic materials. We, the consumers, cannot produce food, only break down the tissues of other animals and plants.

However, plants do not make "food from the sunlight"; the carbon that they use is taken from carbon dioxide (CO2), that is, it is inorganic carbon, and transformed into organic carbon (organic acids and ultimately carbohydrates). The carbohydrates are then used by plants and other living beings to synthesize proteins and fats, as well as more complex organic macromolecules.

What they _do_ is use the energy from the sun to break the chemical bonds of inorganic CO2 and form the new bonds of organic carbonated substances. Thus, the solar energy is stored as chemical energy in those bonds. When these bonds are broken (in the body of the plant itself or in the digestive system of herbivores), that energy becomes available to sustain all the metabolic activities along the food webs.

Answer 3

Plants are called producers because they poduce their own food.
Hence they are also as AUTOTROPES.
sun is the main source of energy,the energy produced by the
sunis utilised by the plants along with the prescence of water,co2,minerals and produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis

Answer 4

ecology organism that makes its food: an organism such as a green plant, that manufactures its own food from simple inorganic substances.
Producers are ultimately the sole source of food for all animals and other consumer organisms.

Answer 5

Plants can produce food for their own by photosynthesis using sunlight , water, etc.So they are called producers.

Answer 6

Plants are producers simply coz they produce food for all of us by the process of photosynthesis.and we r consumers as we are dependent on plants for our nutrition and CONSUME what they PRODUCE

Answer 7

Most if not all of the food we eat on earth has alink to plants. They are found at the base of the food piramid
Plants has the capacity to down load energy from the sun and pass it to other living things.

Answer 8

Hi,plant are called producer,becoz it produce(make) food requierment for all living organism,by process of photosynthesis
(CO2+H2O+Chlorophyl=C6H12O6+O2+Energy,)

Answer 9

Plants produce food for other animals (herbivores/omnivores) and also provide food indirectly to carnivores.

Answer 10

plants are producers cuz they produce their own food (glucose--a sugar) from inorganic stuff like sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide through photosynthesis