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.
A Food chain
Food chain.
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protozoa
Heterotrophs.
an consumer
All heterotrophs (consumers) obtain their energy from eating food.
All living entities.
heterotroph
Because in the food chain, autotrophs obtain the most amout of energy because they get it directly from the sun. As the food chain decreses, the energy lesses.
The chemical energy that an organism obtains from food is converted to ATP.
Energy enters a food chain in the form of sunlight, and leaves the food chain in the form of heat.