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Q: What is formed when a decaying plants use up the available oxygen in a body of water?
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How are coal deposits formed?

Millions of years of pressure and heat turned decaying animals and plants into coal.


How do aquatic animals help aquatic plants?

Aquatic plants help to oxygenate the water - replacing the oxygen that's used by the fish - and the decaying fish waste.


Where does the oxygen come from that you are breathing right now?

oxygen can be formed by the electrolysis of water, or by chemical reactions Oxygen is present in air, about 19% by volume, but it is not formed there. Most oxygen is naturally formed in green plants and algea by photosynthesis.


How is oxygen made available?

plants and trees inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. The opposite of humans.


What do plants exrete?

plants exrete carbon dioxide in the night time and exrete oxygen when light is available


How do plants get energy at night?

Plants use Oxygen from the atmosphere and nutrients from the soil when no light is available for photosynthesis.


These plants are found on the forest floor they grow on dead and decaying plants which are these plants?

saprophytic plants


What insect eats decaying plants?

Termites


Where did the energy come from to create oil?

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What are plants. they eat dead and decaying plants and animals?

It is called organic matter


Which non green plants eat dead and decaying plants?

Saprophytic fungi


Do any plants produce as much carbon dioxide as humans?

No, it's the other way around. Plants intake Carbon dioxide and put out Oxygen. In the theory of how the world formed, this is how the atmosphere got to contain Oxygen, from plants spreading over the continents and producing Oxygen.