Technically eating an apple cannot be the first link in an energy conversion from solar power to X since the apple is already converted. Therefore your question is invalid.
I would ask; do you mean what steps to convert the solar energy into an apple or to what energy is the stored and converted solar energy in the apple being converted to?
CHAIN OF ENERGYA chain of energy is different forms of energy changing as the energy goes through different stages. Some teachers may say that's incorrect,but it is in fact correct because my wonderful teachers gave me almost the same definition, because sadly I had trouble with it!!!CHAIN OF ENERGY
the energy Converter is called FOOD CHAIN or maybe ENERGY PYRAMID :))
An energy chain is a straights line.So there is only one producer , one primary consumer and so on. An energy diagram splits so there are many producers and consumers.It is not a straight line.
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Food Chain
A type of chemical energy.
The role that the consumer in a food chain plays is to take that energy away from that animal by eating it.
Heterotrophs get energy by eating plants. The process is called food chain.
These links are called food chains. The herbivors eat plants to get energy taped by plants during photosynthesis. The herbivors are eaten by carnivors to recycle that very energy of photosynthesis. Thus there is a link among producers (plants) and consumers (animals).
the energy stored by orducers can be passed through an acosystem along a food chain, a series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.
Food Chain
Food Chain
The links between the energy that carnivores get from eating each other are butts.
Biochemical cycles are the main means of energy transfer through an ecosystem. The transfer of energy by eating and being eaten is called the food chain.