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Does biomass need solar energy to run?
No, biomass typically produces energy through incineration which does not require solar energy.
How do living systems get solar energy?
Solar energy arrives at the planet Earth in the form of sunlight. Plants use a catalyst called chlorophyll to convert the energy of sunlight into usable chemical energy, through a process known as photosynthesis.
How is biomass an indirect form of solar energy?
Biomass is considered an indirect form of solar energy because it originates from the photosynthesis process, where plants convert sunlight into chemical energy. Through this process, plants absorb sunlight and utilize carbon dioxide and water to produce glucose and oxygen. When biomass is burned or converted into biofuels, the stored solar energy is released, making it a renewable source of energy. Thus, biomass serves as a way to harness solar energy that has been captured and stored by living organisms.
You use mechanical energy to walk around what form did this energy have before your body changed it into mechanical energy?
Chemical energy ... in food ... which plants made from solar energy, water, and dirt.
What are some advantages and disadvantages of thermal energy?
There are two main types of thermal energy - solar and geothermal. Solar energy is renewable and sustainable, and after the initial investment, is free. Geothermal energy is renewable, sustainable, and clean reducing reliance on foreign energy sources. The disadvantages are mostly financial because of the start up costs. While solar is an individual form of energy, geothermal requires large generation plants. Also solar viability is dependent on the amount of sunshine the area receives.
Green plants use what kind of energy during photosynthesis?
The Green plants convert solar energy into chemical energy and with the help of cholorophyll they produse their food.
Green plants perform which type of energy conversion?
solar to chemical energy
What captures solar energy and uses photosynthesis to produce sugars?
Plants do this in the chloroplasts in their green leaves.
Monerans that use solar energy in a manner similar to green plants are called?
Phototrophic plants are the monerans that use solar energy in a manner similar to the green plants. The phototrophic plants are generally referred to as are phototrophs.
What organism makes its own food using solar energy?
Green plants.
Why is it that generally the leaves of plants is color green?
Because plants use chlorophyll to photosynthesize energy from solar radiation and chlorophyll is a bad absorber of light's green wavelengths.
What is an example of solar energy being converted into chemical energy?
An example of solar energy being converted into chemical energy is through the process of photosynthesis in plants. During photosynthesis, plants use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose (a form of chemical energy) and oxygen. This stored chemical energy can be used by the plant for growth and maintenance.
What plant cell uses solar energy?
All green plants that contain chlorophyll; that is, almost all of them.
An analogy for chloroplast?
The chloroplast is like a paint that's green and turns the plants green in the painting. Because the chloroplast turns plants green, and that's why the plants are green, it's like a color paint for your painting.
In a food chain which are the most efficient users of solar energy?
Plants are the most efficient users of solar energy in a food chain, as they convert sunlight into chemical energy through photosynthesis. This energy is then transferred to herbivores when they consume plants, and subsequently to carnivores when they consume herbivores.
Why do scientists say that all forms life depend on solar energy?
Plants require sunlight to grow. Other forms of life eat plants.
How can fossil fuels be used as solar energy?
The hydrocarbons used in the fossil fuel are the product of photosynthesis, that took place in the plants of carboniferous age. Since photosynthesis require solar energy, these fossil fuels have also been derived from solar energy.
