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There are many organisms that feed on carcasses of plants and animals. Jackals and Vultures and among them. There are also organisms called decomposers which break down the dead carcasses for nutrients.
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Two different ways organisms acquire energy?
plants receive energy from the sun and water and convert it using the process of photosynthesis.mammals acquire energy from activities such as eating, drinking and sleeping.by either consuming other organisms or making its own food
How do animals get energy from sunlight?
By eating plants.
How does a zebra obtain its energy from the sun?
By eating plants.
Why do plants and animal and other organisms need nitrogen?
Nitrogen is required by plants and animals for protein synthesis
All living organisms are dependent on plants because?
All living organisms are dependent on plants because to gain energy.
An animal is a answer as it cannot make its own food. Animals eat plants?
an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms. an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food. an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living
What organisms get energy from eating plants and other animals?
herbivore
What is an animal the gets energy by eating plants and animals?
An omivore
What characteristics of members of the plant kingdom that distinguish is them from members of the animal kingdom?
Plants get energy through photosynthesis - they use sunlight to feed themselves. Animals get energy by eating other organisms.
How do organisms differ in the ways they obtain their energy source or food?
animals- eating, plants- photosynthesis, human- eating and drinking organisms in the ocean - filtration
Why do animals eat and why do plants not eat?
Technically, plants do eat, you just don't see them eating. Animals get their energy from eating other organisms (plants, other animals, etc.), while plants get their energy from the sun and undergo photosynthesis which results in energy for the plant, or their 'food'
How is energy transfered between organisms?
Energy transfers between organisms by making a animal eat a plant which gets it energy so then other animals eat that energy having animal. So that's how energy is transferred between organisms.
Define the term animal?
Animals are organisms that eat other animals or plants to gain energy.
Can animals get energy directly from the sun due to photosynthesis?
Only plants get energy from the sun, and animal gets its energy from eating nutrients.
How does energy plants make during photosynthesis get passed to predators?
The plants are eaten by herbivores (plant eaters) and omnivores (plant & animal eaters) which are in turn eaten by predators
How does photosynthesis beniffit heterotrophs?
By providing an energy source for them. The majority of heterotrophic organisms get their energy by eating photosynthetic organisms or indirectly, by eating things which themselves eat photosynthetic organisms.
Is cougar a producer or consumer?
Producers are those organisms capable of making their own food by trapping the energy from the Sun (ie plants). ALL other life on earth get their energy by eating plants (or eating things that eat plants) these organisms are therefore Consumers.
