Name Something that you eat that doesn't get it's energy from the sun.?

Question

Name Something that you "_eat_" that doesn't get it's energy from the sun. It can only be one thing.

For example: Gum can't be one because gum is from cows and cows eat grass and grass get it's energy from the sun.

Or...: fish can't be one either because fish eat algae and algae is a plant and get's it energy from the sun.

you know what I mean????

It can't be water and mushroooms are fungus and fungus eats decomposition and they get energy from the sun.

Remember it has to be something that you can

eat.

Answer 1

ICE But even it gets some of its energy from the sun. . .

Perhaps if you wanted to eat a rock, but that is not very appealing. .

But then some mushrooms are required to be grown in total darkness. However, they are usually grown on compost, which contains biomass which has grown under, you guessed it, the sun.

There are some species of invertebrates and bacteria, which grow in total darkness, such as cave crayfish, which interestingly enough, have no color, they are albino's.

But, there are certain bacteria that grow next to deep thermal vents in the ocean, and receive energy from the heat of the vent, (from the heat of the internal earth, not related to the sun) or the sulfite's which are evolved from those vents, (also not formed from the heat of the sun.) I don't know if any of those species are edible or would even taste good if they were!

Answer 2

Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. In the beginning, as Earth was being formed around the Sun, all the energy on Earth was born of the Sun or materials similar to what went into the Sun. So, in that sense, everything, even those sulfur based tube worms near the vents in the Atlantic rift get their energy indirectly from the Sun. That results, because the vents get their energy from the Earth, but the Earth got its energy from the Sun when the Earth was first formed.

But to stretch it even further, the Sun, other planets, galaxies, and, indeed, everything in our known universe get their energies from the big bang...from creation itself. Thus, if we did a sort-of genealogy search of that hot dog you are eating, we'd be able to trace its existence back to the big bang.

Answer 3

I don't think there is anything we can (sensibly) eat that doesn't get anything from the sun, although some creatures living at great depths (tube worms) in the ocean might be edible.

These creatures - I don't really know whether they can be called plants or animals - ultimately extract geothermal energy. Some bacteria - known as "extremophiles" also get energy this way.

This is totally different from photosynthesis which most surface plants and animals rely on.

So you could answer tubeworms.... or maybe dirt.

hth

Answer 4

Unless you eat something that came from a volcanic vent along the mid-atlantic ridge, there isn't much food found naturally that doesn't get its energy from the sun - something grown in hydroponics in artificial light would be about the only other source.. (the stuff that comes from volcanic vent life is probably very poisonous as it typically has a very high sulfer content...)

Answer 5

Mushrooms

Answer 6

Water and salt

Answer 7

Water.
Salt.