Answer:
The plants in an ecosystem produce food for most of the other organisras that live in that ecosystem. The role of a plant in its ecosystem is its <em>trophic level</em>
Explanation:
Plants are the least to be found in the trophic level, they are otherwisely called <em>autotrophs. </em>They make food for themselves while others among the trophic level depend on them
The answer is: B) silkworms.
“While sitting in her garden she deduced the secret of silk by watching the silkworms. She developed the process to remove the thread from the cocoon and set up silk cultivation farms and the weaving of the new cloth.” (Source: http://4kyws.ua.edu/SI_LING_CHI.html)
I believe passive transport is a form of diffusion. And it doesn't require any energy unlike active transport.