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plants really don't eat in the way that animals eat. A better question would be, "How do plants make their own food?" Green plants get nourishment through a chemical process called photosynthesis, which uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make simple sugars. Those simple sugars are then changed into starches, proteins, or fats, which provide a plant with all the energy it needs to perform life processes and to grow.
Generally, sunlight (along with carbon dioxide) enters through the surface of a plant's leaves. The sunlight and carbon dioxide travel to special food-making cells (palisade) deeper in the leaves. Each of these cells contain a green substance called chlorophyll-which gives plants their green color-that traps light energy, allowing food-making to take place. Also located in the middle layer of leaves are special cells that make up a plant's "transportation" systems. Tubelike bundles of cells called xylem tissue carry water and minerals throughout a plant, from its roots to its outermost leaves. Phloem cells, on the other hand, transport the plant's food supply-sugar dissolved in water-from its manufacturing site in leaves to all other cells.
The plant food that we buy in stores is simply a mixture of minerals that plants need to grow well. These include nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Usually a plant is able to get these things from the soil in which it grows, drawing them up with water through its roots. But gardeners, farmers, and other plant growers add to this natural mineral supply so plants can thrive.
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∙ 15y agoInsects eat plants. If you mean is it an herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore, an herbivore eats plants. Many animals (not just insects) eat plants.
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∙ 11y agoPlants don't eat.
Instead, they use photosynthesis to convert light energy into chemical energy they use to survive.
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Why could you not eat much without plants?
You couldn't eat anything without plants. Every living thing on out planet is dependent on plants. Some eat plants directly (herbivores), while carnivores eat animals (that eat plants), and omnivores eat both.
What Organisms that eat plants are called?
Organisms that eat plants are called herbivores.
Are plants safe for tadpoles to eat?
Plants are safe for tadpoles to eat and are one of their favorite foods. Tadpoles also like to eat algae which can be found growing on plants.
Can plants eat plants?
Interesting question. Plants don't really "eat". Plants produce sugars from photosynthesis, even plants that seem to "eat" insects are not trapping insects for energy, but for other nutrients such as nitrogen. With this being said, when a plant dies and its nutrients return to the soil, those ions and molecules are absorbed by the root systems of the plants in the immediate area. So in the traditional sense, Plants do not eat other plants, but they are able to derive some of their required molecules from their fallen brothers.
What kind of plants does bushbabies eat?
Bush babies eat mostly insects and bugs. Sometimes they feed on flowers, fruits, nectar, and honey from plants. They do not normally eat just plants.
What does plants eat from the ocean?
plants eat plants in the ocean.
What type of dinosaur eat plants?
herbivores, who only eat plants and omnivores, who eat both plants and animals. it is canivores that only eat meat and not plants.
How is it possible for plants energy to be passed on to a lion when lions do not eat plants?
They eat animals that eat plants.
What are herbivores which eat producers?
Herbivores eat plants, and plants are producers. So, all herbivores eat producers.
How do the plants help us?
We eat plants and we eat animals that eat plants. Also plants add oxygen to our air. Plants are also beautiful to look at.
Do plankton eat plants?
no plankton do not eat plants
Does deer eat plants?
yes, they do eat plants
Which animals do not eat plants?
Carnivores do not eat plants.
What do the European eat?
Plants. Rabbits eat plants.
What do tiny plants eat?
Small plants eat other small plants
What herbivores eat plants?
All herbivores eat primarily plants. Many omnivores also eat plants.
What do locus eat?
Locusts only eat plants. They can eat their body weight in plants every day, and will eat whatever plants they can find.
