Producer

A producer is an organism that produces its own food from the sun. For example, in an ocean biome, a type of producer is kelp. This plant makes its own food from the energy of the sun. Kelp makes chlorophyll, a pigment that makes this plant green. As you can see in the picture over here, the kelp forest is all green from chlorophyll. Through a process called photosynthesis, kelp takes energy from the sun and CO2. Using those items, kelp makes glucose, a type of sugar which it feeds on. Plankton is also a producer. Plankton also takes energy from the sun and converts it into its own food. To sum it up, seaweed is also a producer in the ocean biome. A primary consumer is an animal that eats a producer. Producers are important to the food chain. If there were no producers, all consumers would become carnivores, or meat-eating animals. When all the consumers eat meat, they would have to reproduce fast enough in order for the food chain to stay in place. Scavengers would have to work more, and decomposers would have to decompose the dead animals, making them into rich soil. But what is the use of good, rich soil without any producers to take in the rich nutrients and humus?