Ecosystems Lesson 6: Sunlight on the Menu

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1. Explain how the matter in each ingredient can be traced back to plants.
2. Explain how these ingredients can be traced back to the sun.
3. What MATTER in the food originally came from producers?
4. What ENERGY in the food originally came from the sun?
5. How is energy transferred from the sun to ingredients in your favorite foods?
   

1. Herbivores get their matter from plants and carnivores get their matter from herbivores.
2. Also, all the plants matter can be traced back to the sun.
3. All of these ingredients come from plants if you trace it back all the way to the beginning.
4. All of the energy came from the sun as well because it all came from plants and the plants energy came from the sun.
5. The sun goes to the plants and the plants' energy goes to the herbivore.