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What do animals give off that is useful to plants?
Oxygen is found in the air all around us. Animals exhale(give off) carbon dioxide, which is used by plants. Plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.
How can the wind and animals help a plant reproduce?
When the insect flies to another flower for nectar, the pollen body brushes off to help fertilize the flower. 2. Some animals help reproduce by eating the fruit of the plant including the seeds. Since plants cannot move, they rely on animals and the wind to scatter their seeds.
What plants use animals to disperse their seeds?
Examples include mangoes, guavas, breadfruit, carob, and several fig species. In South Africa, a desert melon (Cucumis humifructus) participates in a symbiotic relationship with aardvarks—the animals eat the fruit for its water content and bury their own dung, which contains the seeds, near their burrows.
Why do plants need animals and animals need plants?
Animals need plants for food and shelter. 3. Plants need animals for seed dispersal and pollination. 4.
What does an animal provide a plant for photosynthesis?
These organisms are vital to life on earth as they provide oxygen as well as food. Photosynthetic organisms take light energy and use it to make their own “food”. In this process they use carbon dioxide and light to make sugars and oxygen.
How do animals provide nutrients to plants?
Herbivores, Omnivores, and Carnivores Herbivores are animals whose primary food source is plant-based. Omnivores are animals that eat both plant- and animal-derived food.
How does an animal help a plant to germinate?
There is a tree that produces egg- sized, purple fruit with a pit (seed) in the center. The seed cannot germinate unless it passes through the digestive tract of a large, primitive bird called a Cassowary. Animals spread seeds around. This is called seed dispersal.
How are animals useful to plants when they die?
When animals die they decompose in the soil and hence making the soil more fertile. This fertile soil help he growth of plants properly . Birds and insects help in pollination of plants which is known as ornithophilily and entomophiliy respectively . Animals like squirrel help in germination of seeds .
How does a travelling animal help plant reproduction?
The travelling animal helps spread the seeds to far off places, and the manure acts as a fertilizer to help the seeds grow. One way animals can help plant reproduction is by directly fertilizing them.
How are birds and insects useful to plants?
Birds and insects help in pollination of plants which is known as ornithophilily and entomophiliy respectively . Animals like squirrel help in germination of seeds . 5.Animal manure have fertility capacity hence making soil fertile.