Animals get their energy from the food that they eat. Herbivores get food from plants which produce their own food during photosynthesis. Omnivores get food from both plants and animals. On the other hands, carnivores eat other animals as food to get energy.
For example:
Plant >> Chicken >> Human
For this food web, the energy is transferred from the plant to the chicken then to the human. But not all the energy produced by the plant is transferred. Some of the energy but used up by the chicken so only some energy are passed on to the human.
animals and plant use energy for living
True
plants
Light
photosyntices Energy from the sun is transferred from plants to animals by the animal consuming the plant.
energy transfer to the plant,then to the animals and human and lastly to the decomposers.
It is vacuole
The mitochondria
Through small holes
Coal
The main energy source for plant-eating animals is carbohydrates, such as sugars and starches, found in plants. These carbohydrates are broken down during digestion to release energy for the animal to use.
For plant-eating animals the benefit is that they can get to the sugar the plant has stored.