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Herbivore animals eat the plants as food and carnivores eat those herbivore animals as food. Therefore, in a way, all animals depend on plants for their energy requirement.
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How does sunlight provide energy to all organisms?
The only organisms that can directly convert sunlight into energy are plants. Plants intake solar light and, through a series of complex chemical reactions, produce food and stored energy. This energy travels along the food chain as plants are eaten by animals, and animals by other animals. However, as each organism consumes the one before it, only about 10% of consumed organism's energy is transferred.
What basic unit of food is used for energy and growth?
The sun provides light energy which plants use to convert in to chemical energy through photosynthesis. Nutrients from the soil also assist in growth of plants. Animals rely completely on these green plants for their energy. Green plants produce chemical energy (food energy).
Biologists estimate that on average percent of the plants accumulated energy is passed on to the bodies of the organism that eats it?
10%
From what other source can organisms draw energy?
Basically, there are two types of organisms: AUTOTROPHS & HETEROTROPHS. Autotrophs: These basically consist of the plants.They derive their energy from the sun by a system called photosynthesis. This energy helps provide them with what is required to survive. Heterotrophs: These are the animals that feed on themselves as well as on plants. They derive their energy from the plants. They get a lower level of energy at each stage of consumption.
How do butterflies use energy and nutrients?
Adult butterflies do not eat plants but live on fluid nutrients gathered from flowering plants. Different species of butterflies favor different flowers. The flowers they feed on can grow on plants, shrubs, vines or trees. It is the caterpillar (larval stage of butterfly life cycle) that eats various parts of plants where its larvae will hatch. Nowadays, keeping a butterfly garden is quite a hobby wherein one can grow nectar-rich flower plants, provide host plants in the garden for the adult butterfly to lay its eggs and nurture its consequent life cycle. At the end of it, that's a garden full of vibrantly colored butterflies you will have!
What organism that used energy from the sun or energy stored in chemical compounds to manufacture their own nutrients?
Plants! :D
How is energy passed in food chains and food webs?
it is passed by first, the energy from the sun and passed into plants which provide nutrients.
What happens to the proteins in dead plants and animals?
Decomposition is kind of like recycling - all the nutrients that make up the organism that has died are eaten by smaller organisms for food and energy - in the process they provide food for other organisms (think of earthworms and birds for one example) as well as releasing the nutrients back to a form that can be used by plants to produce more food.
What do fertillisers provide for plants?
Nutrients , food .
How do plants provide energy in the food chain?
Well, plants get they`re energy from the sun to carry out they`re daily functions, such as growing, making seeds, and producing glucose( sugar) for food. They use about 90% of the energy from the sun for daily life. But the left over 10% is given to the organism that eats the plant. Energy Pyramids are a way of showing how energy moves from organism to organism. From producers (plants) to primary consumers (herbivores) to secondary consumers (carnivores).All in all organisms eat eachother for energy and 10% of energy is transfered to the organism that`s consuming the organism being eaten.
An autotroph is an organism that?
An autotroph is an organism that only needs inorganic nutrients and sunlight to survive. (eg. plants)
What is outotroph?
Any organism capable of selfnourishment by using inorganicmaterials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis orchemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certainbacteria and protists.
How is a nutrient cycle different from a energy pyramid?
It all depends on the plants because plants give off energy to a organism and then that organism gives it to another organism and the process continues.
Do nutrients give plants energy?
Yes.
What is an organism that eats only plants?
An organism that eats only plants is called an herbivore. Herbivores obtain their energy and nutrients by consuming plant material such as leaves, fruits, and seeds. Examples of herbivores include cows, rabbits, and deer.
What type of consumer is an organism that only eats plants?
An organism that only eats plants is called a herbivore. Herbivores obtain energy and nutrients from consuming plant material, such as leaves, stems, and fruits. Some examples of herbivores include rabbits, deer, and cows.
What does soil provide nutrients and moisture to?
vegetation (plants)
