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Do animals get oxygen from eating plants?

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No, animals get the Oxygen they need from breathing in air as part of the process of respiration, this has nothing to do with digesting food.

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What else besides energy do we get by eating plants and animals?

nah nothing


What do plants give off that animals need?

The animals need the oxygen that plants release.


How is nitrogen obtained by animals?

.They get it from eating plants.


How do plants and animals relesase energy?

Plants release energy by absorbing in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. Animals release energy by eating and their waste releases energy by turning in to a decomposed material to make humus for plants


What will happen to animals if all plants vanish and vice verse?

If all plants vanish from the planet, then there will be no food for plant eating animals and they will die of hunger and the animal eating animals (Carnivorous.) die as they will not have plant eating animals to eat. Also Carbon bi oxide will go on increasing and Oxygen go on decreasing, as animals will respire to produce it and plants are are not there to convert it back to Oxygen. Vise verse if all animals vanish from the earth, then Plants will not get the Carbon bi oxide, required for photosynthesis and they will also die of starvation, as they also need food for there growth and respiration.


How do other animal the nitrogen they need?

Plants and animals die and decomposers break down their nitrogen containing molecules to ammonia. All animals get the nitrogen they need by eating plants, by eating other animals that ate plants, or by eating animals that ate animals that ate plants.


How do animals usually depend on plants?

animals usually depend on plants for oxygen. we breath out carbon dioxide and breath oxygen in, same with animals. and plants breath that carbon dioxide in and and breath out oxygen.


What do plants do for animals?

Plants supply food and oxygen for animals and humans.


Which process uses oxygen in plants algae and animals?

For starters, algae are plants. Plants never use oxygen. Animals use oxygen in the process of respiration. Decomposers use oxygen in the process of respiration when decomposing plants and animals including algae.


How is life affected by the presence or absence of plants animals minerals and other resources?

animals need oxygen and plants produce oxygen. if there is no light for photosynthesis, then plants can not produce oxygen and animals cannot survive


How do plants and animals mantain the level of oxygen in the atmosphere?

Animals breathe in oxygen and let out carbon dioxide. Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen.


How do animals get carbon?

Animals get carbon by eating plants or algae or other animals that have eaten plants.