Why do animals need sunlight and water?

Answer 1

Reptiles need sun to warm up and function. Due to them being cold-blooded, they cannot create their own body heat, and rely on the sun for warmth.

Other animals such as various herbivores rely on the sun to help plants grow, in turn they eat the plants which provide them food.

Carnivores need the sun to provide food for the herbivores, which the carnivores eat.

Answer 2

Well to animals sunlight it very important. See if the plants didn't get sunlight they would all eventually die out. If those plants died out then all the herbivores would die out. Now the animals who eat the herbivores will die out and so on. So all the basics of life depends on sunlight.

Answer 3

Plants need sunlight.

Plant eaters needs plants.

Meat eaters eat plant eaters.

No sun = no plants

No plants = no food for plant eaters = soon no plant eaters

No plant eaters = no food for meat eaters = soon no meat eaters.

Answer 4

Because plants get their energy from the Sun by photosynthesizing. Just like we'd die with out food, water, etc, plants would die without the Sun.

Answer 5

The reason animals need the sun is because if they didn't have the sun than animals would freeze and all their food would be frozen.

Answer 6

We all depend on the sun, life on earth wouldn't be possible without it.

Answer 7

It gives them heat and makes plants grow, animals eat plants or other animals that eat plants.