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Why can plants survive without animals but animals not with plants?
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∙ 10y ago
Plants CAN survive without the help of animals. Animals play a part in a plant's life by either two ways: seed reproductive transport (1), or/and fertilizer(2). For transportation, animals, such as birds, can help by eating a berry off of a berry plant. When they travel away from the area and produce waste from the foods, the seed droppings are in the waste material, which lands onto soil and soon another berry plant will grow. The other ways is a little more complex; plants, for example, grass, can get their soil more nutrients by having other animals such as cows to produce more waste. This manure contains rich ingredients to help the grass grow better. Overall, plants CAN survive without the help of animals. But if they DO get help, such as transport or soil nutrients, they have more chance of living longer.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 10y agoSimply because animals eat plants and other animals eat the animals that eat plants. Plants are autotrophs, producers of their own food. Animals are herterotrophs, consumers of producers food.
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∙ 16y agoplants give oxygen from photosynthesis and food to animals as well
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∙ 12y agoPlants don't need animals 2 survive! They only need carbon dioxide (Co2), sunlight, and water (H2o)! :))
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∙ 10y agobecause animals that eat plants won't have anything to eat and plants don't eat animals they make there food.
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Can animals survive without plants?
No, for different reasons. Plants create oxygen through a process called photosynthesis, which is crucial to survive. They also produce food for herbivores, which, in turn, is food for carnivores.
Can organisms survive without energy from the sun?
not really cause plants grown from the sun and water but mostly the sun and the sun helps the plants grown so then the plants give energy to animals so the animals will live so no organisms can not survive without energy from the sun
Can humans live without photosynthesis?
Humans themselves do not use photosynthesis, but because humans depend on plants, as well as other animals that eat plants, in order to live, no, humans could not live without photosynthesis. Unless plants had another way to make food for themselves, humans could not live without photosynthesis.
What plants and animals live during droughts?
Rabbits,Hares and more animals survive in droughts , but most animals don`t survive.
Why does many green plants survive in a world without mammals but mammals cant survive without green plants?
mammals cant survive without green plants , because that is their food and they live off of the plants. Green plant can live without mammals, because they can make their own food with photosynthesis.
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
Why lily plant cannot survive without water?
There are no plants nor animals that can survive without water.
Why cant animals survive in a closed container without plants?
plants produce oxygen which animals need.
How do animals help some kinds of plants survive?
Without animalscarnivorous plants wouldn't survive because that's their food
Do we need animals and plants?
Yes. Mankind could not survive without them.
What is better plants or animals?
no one in this world can answer this question . No animal can survive without plants and no plants can survive without animals because animals get their food to eat, air(oxygen) to breath from plants and many more, and plants also need air(Carbon Dioxide) to breath, nutrition from soil,etc.
Can animals survive without plants?
No, for different reasons. Plants create oxygen through a process called photosynthesis, which is crucial to survive. They also produce food for herbivores, which, in turn, is food for carnivores.
Could animals survive without plants?
No because animals eat plants so if animals didnt eat plants the plants would die unless watered.
Can organisms survive without energy from the sun?
not really cause plants grown from the sun and water but mostly the sun and the sun helps the plants grown so then the plants give energy to animals so the animals will live so no organisms can not survive without energy from the sun
How do plants survive without water?
Plants have the ability to retain water because of a special structure called a cuticle.
Can plants and and animals survive without bacteria?
No. They could not under the current regime of life on Earth. Bacteria, in their symbiotic, detrivorous, and other roles are critical to the life functions of plants and animals. If all bacteria were to die out, it is likely that everything living on the planet would die out. Oddly enough, the bacteria could survive without animals or plants.
Why is it so difficult for plants and animals to survive in deserts and tundra?
there is not a lot of water.. therefore the plants dont survive and the animals also do not survive.
