Answer: Sunlight is converted to chemical energy.
The existence of nearly all life on Earth is fueled by light from the Sun. Most autotrophs such as plants use the energy of sunlight combined with carbon dioxide and water to produce simple sugars—a process known as photosynthesis. These sugars are then used as building-blocks and in other synthetic pathways that allow the organism to grow. Heterotrophs such as animals use light from the Sun indirectly by consuming the products of autotrop…
During photosynthesis the plants use the energy of the sunlight water and carbon dioxide to create glucose (sugar ). The glucose can later be used by the plant for energy or animals eat the plant and the glucose in it.
Photosynthetic organisms are photoautotrophs which means that they are able to synthesize food directly from carbon dioxide and water using energy from light. However not all organisms use carbon dioxide as a source of carbon atoms to carry out photosynthesis; photoheterotrophsuse organic compounds rather than carbon dioxide as a source of carbon. In plants algae and cyanobacteria photosynthesis releases oxygen. This is called oxygenic photosynthesis and is b…