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Individually, most plants derive everything they need to live from the sun, soil, and water, excluding carnivorous plants like Venus fly traps and sundew which live in nutrient poor soil and receive all their protein and nutrients from the animals they catch. In theory most plants could grow from a seed and live out their entire lives without ever coming into contact with an animal.
However, many plants are able to reproduce only with the help of animals. Insects, especially bees, carry pollen from one plant to another, fertilizing it and allowing that plant to create seeds and continue the species. Without these insects many species of plants would go extinct. And if you have to ask, yes, insects are animals.
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∙ 11y agoYes, but not as we know it. Most organisms rely on plants to produce sugar (glucose) and oxygen. Some bacteria, such as cyanobacteria, can produce their own food through photosynthesis and do not need to rely on plants.
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∙ 13y agoNo because the food chain consists of the plants at the bottom with the herbivores in the middle and the carnivores at the top.The whole food chain depends on the survival of plants. There may be animals that could survive that we don't know about. Scientists have found animals that live in the most extreme environments that we thought life was impossible to be in but yet they are thriving. As far as we know today all life would stop without plants. Also, animals need oxygen from plants to survive while plants need carbon dioxide from us to survive. Without either of us, the Earth wouldn't be able to sustain life.
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∙ 15y agono... because the animals who eat plants are food for the carnivores
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∙ 13y agoYes they would
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∙ 14y agoyes, they are autotrophs
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∙ 12y agoyes,they are autotrophs
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What will happen if pollination stoped?
Flowering plants would be severely impacted and would have to resort, when possible, to self fertilization. Many flowering plant would go extinct and all animal life, including humans, depending on these plants would be also severely impacted.
Why would you take plants to mars?
If you could take plants to Mars without them dying, it would help making Mars a planet that can support an ecosystem. Plants produce Oxygen which is crucial for animal survival (this includes humans, too, because technically humans are a type of animal). If Mars could successfully support an ecosystem, we could colonize it, which would help resolve issues with overpopulation.
How does photosynthesis make our lives possible?
it helps plants stay green and once we pick them we can eat them Oxygen is a product of photosynthesis. Without the plants that produce oxygen, we would not have any oxygen to breathe.
What invertebrate is an omnivore?
INVERTEBRATE: An animal lacking a backbone OMNIVORE: An animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
Would there be a food chain if there were only two living components?
Yes. One component would have to feed on another. More than likely this would be an animal feeding off of a plant, as plants are the only living components that can extract energy from the sun to produce food. Without plants, no living components would survive.
What would happen if animals came overpopulated?
what would happen is that the animal species would become an invasive species and they would eat all of the plants and food sources, which would starve out animal and human resources, which then would die out animal and human species, and without them, the plants soon will die out, which then they're would be nothing to take care of the earth.
What is nitrogen harmful or useful?
Nitrogen is extremely helpful to plants because it is a vital nutrient they need. When nitrogen enters the blood steam of a human or animal, it can cause decompression sickness. On the whole, life would not be possible without nitrogen.
How do animals affect plants?
Plants are the building blocks of life. Without plants, animals like vegetarians would starve and the animals that eat the vegetarians would starve and so on. The whole animal kingdom is dependent on plants. So if say plants some how all died, we would be in a lot of trouble.
Is water only important to humans?
No. Water is important to plants and every animal on the planet. Without water, there would be no life on Earth.
Why animal exist?
It makes part of the Life evolution on Earth. As the plants also make part. Don't you think that the Earth without animals and plants would be so boring?
What role do plant and animal play in maintaining ecological balance write impact implication on the environment if it inbalance?
Plants and animals are fundamental to ecological balance. Plants could exist without animals but animals could not live without plants. Without animals plants would eventually stabilise to a new level of ecological equilibrium.
Why would an animal not excrete?
Possibly because it is constipated. It depends on the type of animal and how long it has gone without excreting, but I would ask a vet, if possible. I knew a calf once that died of constipation.
If there was no plants how would animal life be affected?
If there were no plants, the animal population would be drastically changed. The herbivores would die and soon after so would carnivores. Only the decmoposers would be left. That's how important plants are to an environment.
Any animal that eats animals and plants?
An animal that only eats plants is referred to as an herbivore. A specific example would be a cow. An animal that "primarily" eats plants would also, on occassion, eat meat, thus being an omnivore. A specific example of an omnivore would be humans.Herbivore
What will happen if pollination stoped?
Flowering plants would be severely impacted and would have to resort, when possible, to self fertilization. Many flowering plant would go extinct and all animal life, including humans, depending on these plants would be also severely impacted.
Is the people live without plants?
Without plants, the people of Earth would die.
Could there be a food chain without herbivores amd carnivores?
No, because without herbivores no mammal would eat plants therefore there would be very high numbers of plants. Without a carnivore, scavengers wont be able to eat food.
