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it does reach the earth in light energy.
by solar energy
through the mantlethrough the suns rays
the sun's energy goes into the grass and then the grazing animal eats the grass!
it goes into the inner core.
well plankton eats the energy from the sun and that helps it provide oxygen and this is the process of photosynthesis. so really plankton only eats the suns heat and energy.
8 minutes.
About 8-1/3 minutes.
Waves of heat and light, called radiation, travel to earth.
by the food it eats like plants that contain the suns rays from photosynthisis :)
it doesn't get energy directly from the sun it gets the suns energy from whatever producers it eats and if its a carnivore than it eats herbivores and herbivores eat producers so the rat gets energy from the herbivore which gets energy from the sun.
Some is absorbed by the earths air water and soil. The remainder is reflected.