Plants and Animals can one live without the other?

Question

Its an obvious question but I'm doing an assignment on it so give me all the feedback you can.

Answer 1

No they can't. It's the whole food chain/web, "Circle of Life" thing. If you remove or change one part of the chain it affect the rest of the chain.  

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Lion King quote

Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.

Young Simba: But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?

Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.

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A change in the size of one population in a food chain will affect other populations.

This interdependence of the populations within a food chain helps to maintain the balance of plant and animal populations within a community. For example, when there are too many giraffes; there will be insufficient trees and shrubs for all of them to eat. Many giraffes will starve and die. Fewer giraffes means more time for the trees and shrubs to grow to maturity and multiply. Fewer giraffes also means less food is available for the lions to eat and some lions will starve to death. When there are fewer lions, the giraffe population will increase.

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A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. Some animals eat plants and some animals eat other animals. For example, a simple food chain links the trees & shrubs, the giraffes (that eat trees & shrubs), and the lions (that eat the giraffes). Each link in this chain is food for the next link. A food chain always starts with plant life and ends with an animal.

   1. Plants are called producers because they are able to use light energy from the Sun to produce food (sugar) from carbon dioxide and water.

   2. Animals cannot make their own food so they must eat plants and/or other animals. They are called consumers. There are three groups of consumers.

         1. Animals that eat ONLY PLANTS are called herbivores (or primary consumers).

         2. Animals that eat OTHER ANIMALS are called carnivores.

                * carnivores that eat herbivores are called secondary consumers

                * carnivores that eat other carnivores are called tertiary consumers

                  e.g., killer whales in an ocean food web ... phytoplankton → small fishes → seals → killer whales

   3. Animals and people who eat BOTH animals and plants are called omnivores.

   4. Then there are decomposers (bacteria and fungi) which feed on decaying matter.

      These decomposers speed up the decaying process that releases mineral salts back into the food chain for absorption by plants as nutrients.

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Answer 2

plants can very easily livce without animals.. they did for about a billion years before the fist animals...

and to the black smoker comment.. the world is dependant on plants.. even if certain ecosystems aren't

they still need oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon fixation

and nate.. more than mere mammals need oxygen

in response to heather's long winded citations..

ecology as it currently is wouldn't be the same.. i agree.. but dead plant tiddue is just as good a fertilizer as dead animal tissue..

fact of the matter is 'plants' were around a lot sooner than non-plants (fungi, animals, protists, etc) meaning they can live indipendant of such life...

should non-plant life have not evolved.. life would be different (wouldn't have the same trees, plants, etc) but they would still be around.. and my guess must more interesting

Answer 3

No.But without the other no one will survives.

Answer 4

no.  without one, the other would die of lack of either carbon dioxide (plants), or oxygen (mammals).  humans have the ability to create our own oxygen through complicated machine and chemical systems or whatever, but not enough to sustain oxygen for the entire world.  so, one cannot survive without the other.

Answer 5

Look up 'black smokers'.