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Is the claim, "Despite not being a plant, you get your energy from the sun." accurate?

Write a paragraph explaining your reasoning.

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Yes (kind of), because even though we do not use the sun as directly as say plants, we still rely on the sun on a daily basis, however we don't necessarily get our energy from it, like plants do.

The sun produces light as well as heat, also known as solar energy. This makes it possible for life to exist on Earth, and we can use solar energy to power a wide variety of useful things, however sun/solar energy is not the only way to get electricity.

As we know, plants need sunlight to grow, although humans don't grow by being exposed to sunlight, sunlight helps grow plants which animals, including humans, need for food as well as oxygen they produce.

Most livestock we eat, cows for example, need plants to survive and many people eat meat, and even if you don't you'd eat plants which, once again, need sunlight to grow. Also, without heat from the sun, Earth would freeze.

OVERALL...

It's kind of like a chain, we get our energy from things that get their energy directly from sunlight. A short answer would be yes, but it's not quite as simple as that.

I hope this helps, hopefully you can use it to formulate an answer of some sort.

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