What term refers to something that can satisfy hunger and provide energy?

• A. Energy
• B. Food
• C. Evolution
• D. Entropy

Answer: (B)

The main idea is to identify the word for something that can satisfy hunger and provide energy. That would be food. Food is any substance ingested to nourish the body and supply energy; it contains chemical energy that can be released during digestion to power metabolism, movement, growth, and body functions. In marine systems, organisms rely on food from the environment to meet their energy needs—for example, phytoplankton capture sunlight to store energy, which then passes up the food chain to consumers. Energy, on the other hand, is the ability to do work, not a thing you eat; entropy is a measure of disorder in a system; evolution describes genetic changes in populations over time. So the term that best fits the description is food.