Organisms that make their own food with sunlight or chemical energy are called autotrophs.
Consumer
Organisms that make their own food with sunlight or chemical energy are called autotrophs.
The source of energy for most organisms is chemical energy and sunlight.
Autotrophs (plants).
An organism that uses sunlight to make food or energy is known as a producer. An example of a producer is a plant. The plant utilizes the sunlight as energy to produce food.
through a process called photosynthesis.
photosynthesis
it converts sunlight energy into chemical energy
The original energy in most ecosystems enters through sunlight. Sunlight is captured by plants through the process of photosynthesis, where they convert sunlight into chemical energy. This energy is then passed on to other organisms when they consume the plants or other organisms that have consumed plants.
As long as there are mechanisms, such as living organisms, that convert sunlight into chemical energy, and as long as the sun continues producing sunlight, chemical energy is an inexhaustible resource. There would be a finite amount of energy that could be exploited, because the sun's output is finite, but as a resource it wouldn't "run out".
Autotrophs
Chloroplasts, they are found in plant cells. They use what is called photosynthesis, and that, would be your 'chemical energy".
Chloroplasts, they are found in plant cells. They use what is called photosynthesis, and that, would be your 'chemical energy".