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Why do food chains and food webs start with green plants?

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Because plants can absorb the Sun's energy to produce food.

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Because most green plants are tasty.

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Because most insects eat green plants.

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Because they can synthesize food without water.

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Solution

The correct option is A

Because plants can absorb the Sun's energy to produce food.


A food chain always starts with a producer i.e. autotroph. This is usually a green plant which makes its own food by photosynthesis. If there was nothing to produce food, everything would die.


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