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Plants need sunlight to photosynthesize. Without sunlight, the plants would have died, and they would have become unhealthy for the herbivorous dinosaurs. These dinosaurs would have then died and rotted, becoming unhealthy for the carnivorous dinosaurs, thus causing the carnivorous to die.
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Why are dinosaurs extinct because of plants?
Dinosaurs did not die out because of plants. They died out because of a lack of plants after an asteroid impact blocked out sunlight for months or years. With all the plants dead, the dinosaurs starved.
How does sunlight affect your health?
Researchers have found that lack of sunlight can affect your health. The most serious symptom of lack of sunlight would be lack of Vitamin D. To counteract the many problems that could be caused by lack of Vitamin D a person should spend at least a half an hour a day in sunlight.
How would lack of sunlight affect plant size?
It would burn and get brown or moldy.
Can lack of blood kill a vampire?
it would if they existed.
Which plant hormone inhibits its growth?
Lack of sunlight
What did the dinosaurs do?
On special occasions dinosaurs gathered in circles to celebrate the lack of human beings.
If catcus was taken from it habitat and put it in a rainforest?
The cactus would not survive. If not insects, animals, or fungus that would attack it, the lack of sunlight and overabundance of moisture would kill the cactus. On the other hand, if you took a broad-leafed jungle plant and put it in the desert, it would not survive there, either.
What do you call when yellowing occurs caused by lack of sunlight?
chlorosis-loss of the green colour caused by factors other than lack of sunlight
Would a lack of direct sunlight affect the power of my watch?
Citizen watches are a high quality watch and would only be affected by the lack of sunlight if it were a solar battery operated style watch. Seals can sometimes be an issue with prolonged periods of humid weather; but that shouldn't affect the operations of your watch.
What causes mass extinction?
Since about 90% of dinosaurs were herbivores (plant eaters), it was thought that when an asteroid hit earth and many tons of dust was thrown into the atmosphere that the result was a "long night" due to the lack of sunlight that was able to reach earth, the plants died out and without a food source, so did the dinosaurs.
Fewer organisms live at the bottom of a deep lake because of the lack of what?
Because of lack of oxygen and sunlight.
Would you get lighter then your original skin color if you never had sunlight?
No, you would not get lighter than your original skin color, unless you became vitamin malnourished thus making you pail. But that is not a direct cause of lack of sunlight that is just being unhealthy.
