Question

What is meant by the phrase "plants are green factories"?

Answer 1

Plants produce everything they need to survive themselves. They harvest inorganic carbon from the sun and photosynthesize it in order to make glucose which they use for energy.

Answer 2

Answer:

The phrase that plants are called green factories because they perform the process of photosynthesis.

Green plants use chlorophyll, carbon dioxide and sunlight to make food by the help of photosynthesis.

This is the reason green plants are called as Producers.

They are called factories as they produce food to be consumed by the other organism.