What are the links between the energy that carnivores get from eating to the energy captured by photosynthesis

Answer 1

all the energy comes from the sun....plants turn it into a form that is useful to animals...so a carnivore eats a smaller animal who may be an herbivore who feeds exclusively on plants...plants that used photosynthesis to turn solar energy to food!

Answer 2

Plants convert the energy to a form of stored food, like starch or sugars.

Then the animals that eat these plants convert the food they eat to fats. Same goes for the carnivores.

Answer 3

Approximately 1/10 of the energy is transfered to each level. For example, if plants produced 1 unit of energy, herbivores would receive 0.1 unit and 1st level carnivores 0.01.

Answer 4

Easy. Plants photosyhthesize and make starch. Herbivores eat the plants for the starch. Carnivores eat the herbivores. Done.