Producer

Key Stage 2

A producer is a living thing that can make its own food. These are usually plants.

Singular Noun: Producer

Plural Noun: Producers

All plants are producers.

Producers are eaten by consumers.

Producers are always at the start of the food chain.


In this food chain the bush is the producer and the gazelle and cheetah are consumers.

In this food chain the grass is the producer and the grasshopper, baboon and cheetah are all consumers.

A producer is an organism that is able to make its own food (usually by photosynthesis).

All plants are producers.

Producers may also be known as 'Autotrophs'.

Most, but not all, producers make their own food via photosynthesis.

Producers are eaten by primary consumers.

Producers are always at the start of the food chain.


In this food chain the tree is the producer.

In this food chain the grass is the producer.

A producer is an organism that makes its own food using inorganic molecules and an external energy source.

Producers usually make their food by photosynthesis in which Carbon Dioxide and Water are converted into Glucose using the energy supplied by sunlight. However, there are some organisms that can use other energy sources to make their own food.