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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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What Organisms that eat plants are called?
Organisms that eat plants are called herbivores.
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.
Can carnivores eat plants, or are they strictly meat-eaters?
Carnivores are animals that primarily eat meat, but some carnivores may occasionally eat plants as well.
What do carnivores eat, including plants?
Carnivores primarily eat meat, but some may also consume plants occasionally.
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 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.
Does deer eat plants?
yes, they do eat plants
Do plankton eat plants?
no plankton do not eat plants
Which animals do not eat plants?
Carnivores do not eat plants.
What do the European eat?
Plants. Rabbits eat plants.
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.
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.
Do cows only eat plants?
Cows eat plants only and not meat or bugs, but they aren't the only ones who eat plants. All the herbivores and omnivores eat plants.
What type of plants do rolly pollys eat?
they eat plants
