Is life on earth solar powered?

Answer 1

Life on this earth is solar powered because of the so called food chain. Plants are at the bottom of the food chain pyramid which contains the most biomass, then its primary consumers ,secondary consumers and lastly tertiary consumers (humans). How does it make all life on this planet solar powered you ask; well since the plants absorb the suns energy (photosynthesis) what ever eats the plant afterwords gets that sun energy.

For example, an animal (squirrel) eats a plant, then that animal is eaten by another animal (fox or whatever), then that animal is eaten by us, so the energy of the sun is carried down through the food chain down to all life on the planet.