Question

Question 27 of 30

Which statement provides the best description of the relationship between
primary consumers and producers?
OA. Primary consumers provide producers with the chemical energy
they need.
OB. Primary consumers eat secondary consumers, which rely on
producers for food.
OC. Producers provide primary consumers with the chemical energy
they need.
OD. Producers and primary consumers compete with each other for
food sources.

Answer 1

The correct choice is:

OC. Producers provide primary consumers with the chemical energy

they need.

Primary consumers (e.g. herbivores) eat producers (e.g. plants) and gain their chemical

energy from the producers. The other choices do not accurately describe this producer-primary

consumer relationship.

OA. Primary consumers do not provide producers with chemical energy.

Producers provide chemical energy to primary consumers through photosynthesis.

OB. Primary consumers do not eat secondary consumers. Secondary

consumers eat primary consumers.

OD. Producers and primary consumers do not compete for the same

food sources. They occupy different trophic levels in the food chain.

Producers are the base of the food chain and primary consumers feed on them.

So the key relationship is that producers provide primary consumers

with chemical energy by being the base of the food chain and serving

as the primary food source for herbivores.