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plants can make there own food but animals cannot
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 7y agoPlants can utilize the energy of the sun directly (via photosynthesis). Animals can only utilize that energy indirectly by consuming plants that have already utilized it or other animals, which get it from the plants (or from eating other predators that eat plant eating animals, etc.)
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Why do animals need plants and why do plants need animals?
animals need plants because animals like deer depend on plants like grass(to eat). and plants need animals because if the animals did not eat the plants then the plants would become an invasive species. and then it would be hard to take back, or exterminate the plant.
The food plants make is what?
Photosynthesis
What is an organism that eats plants and animals?
OmnivoresomnivoreSomething that eats both plants and animals is called an omnivore.Something that eats both plants and animals is called an omnivore.
How do plants and animals help us in brief?
animals eat plants get the nutrients we eat the animal we get the nutrients
How do plants and animals depend on each other?
Plants convert carbon dioxide given off by animals into oxygen. This process helps both plants and animals to survive. some animals llike deer need plants for food. Plants depend on animals for pollination and dispersal of seeds. Many animals just eat them but some use them as their shelter and and some to escape from predators. Plants depend on animals for enery as when an animal dies plants uses its body's nutrients.
What role does nitrogen play to ensure the continuity of life?
nitrogen is the main nutrient for plants without it plants cant survive without plants herbivorous animals cant survive without them carnivorous animals cant survive without either of them omnivorous animals cant survive
What cant animals do like plants?
photosynthesize?
Why cant animals survive in a closed container without plants?
plants produce oxygen which animals need.
How do plants make land habitable for animals?
Plants make habitat for animals because with out plants animals wont have any thing to eat, both herbivores and carnivores. With out plants herbivores cant eat the plants or have enough oxygen and if there is no plants there is no rain and water. Tis also effects the carnivores since they wont have shelter or food since the cannot eat without any other animals. And they cant camouflage
Why is it not true that plants can live without animals but animals cant live without animals?
Because plants don't have a need for animals, but animals need company and a mate so that they can continue and make their species last.
Do plants give animals carbon dioxide?
well on plants they die and shrivel up like a rasin. then on animals they just cant breathe.
What are two major differences between the lives of plants an animals?
well plants make their own food and plants cant move
Why cant plants and animals live on a rock platform?
Pumas, snakes, goats
How are animals and plants different in getting their food?
probably because plants cant move to catch proper pray or cant fit a deer in its mouth if it even had one. the difference between them is that plants make their own food ( photosynthesis ), and animals have to get it, or find it
What kind of plants that obtain their food from other plants and animals?
they are known as heterotrops the cant make food themselves they depend on other plants and animals example fungi,like mushroom
What would happen if animals were rooted to the ground as plants?
Thy cant eat through their butts like plants do
How plants an animals effect the rainforest in ecosysystem?
because maybe the plant cant be dissapier
