How do animals depend on plants for food?

How do animals depend on plants for food?

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Animals, who are incapable of making their own food, depend on plants for their supply of food. Through photosynthesis, plants take energy from the sun, carbon dioxide from the air, and water and minerals from the soil. They then give off water and oxygen. Animals then use oxygen process called respiration.

Q. What does grass do in a food web?

The grass in the food chain uses the energy of sunlight to make its owns food. The grass uses some of the energy in the food. It stores the rest of the food in its leaves.

Q. What does grass do for the ecosystem?

Maintaining a healthy, thick lawn also benefits the environment. Unlike hard surfaces such as concrete, asphalt, and wood, lawn grass helps clean the air, trap carbon dioxide, reduce erosion from stormwater runoff, improve soil, decrease noise pollution, and reduce temperatures.

Q. What will happen if the plant Cannot make its food?

If photosynthesis does not occur in plants then plants cannot synthesize the food. This causes the mbalanv=ce in the environment. The plants will not produce oxygen and then no animal life will be able to survive due to the absence of oxygen. We will not get oxygen, food, and life on this planet will be extinct.

Q. Do plants depend on each other for food?

The interdependence can also be between plants and animals. Animals and plants depend on each other for various reasons. Herbivores are animals that feed on plants. Grazers are the herbivores that feed only on grass.

Q. How do animals depend on plants directly?

Plants provide shelter for animals and they make oxygen for the animals to live. When animals die they decompose and become natural fertilizer plants. Plants depend on animals for nutrients, pollination and seed dispersal. Plants are also useful for animalhome because many animals live around plants.

Q. Why plants are important to humans and animals?

Plants are really important for the planet and for all living things. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen from their leaves, which humans and other animals need to breathe. Living things need plants to live – they eat them and live in them. Plants help to clean water too.

Q. What are three things animals can get from eating plants?

It may be obvious that animals depend on plants; plants release oxygen into the atmosphere and provide shelter and habitat, some animals eat plants and other animals eat the animals who eat plants. It is easier to overlook the benefits that plants get from animals:- pollination, propagation and fertilization.

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