Question

The following diagram shows a food web.



What can be concluded from the diagram?
A.
Plants can provide chemical energy to the Sun and to animals.
B.
Plants and animals can both transform sunlight energy into chemical energy.
C.
Plants can transform sunlight energy into chemical energy that animals can use.
D.
Plants can obtain chemical energy from sunlight or from animals.

Answer 1

C.

Plants (producers) use sunlight to make chemical energy (photosynthesis); animals (consumers) obtain that chemical energy by eating plants. The other choices are incorrect: A reverses the direction of energy flow, B wrongly says animals photosynthesize, and D wrongly says plants get chemical energy from animals.