Plant and Animal Nutrition Concepts

What are the substances called that are digested and assimilated by living organisms to get energy and for growth and health?

• Waste products

• Foodstuffs

• Toxins

• Chemicals

What is the process called where plants make their own food using sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, and chlorophyll?

• Respiration

• Transpiration

• Photosynthesis

• Germination

Which part of a plant's transport system carries water and minerals from the roots to all aerial parts?

• Phloem

• Stomata

• Xylem

• Chlorophyll

How do plants primarily obtain nitrogen for making proteins, since they cannot directly use nitrogen gas from the air?

• Through direct absorption from the air.

• By converting it into compounds through biological or atmospheric fixation.

• By absorbing it from sunlight.

• By producing it themselves through photosynthesis.

What are plants called that depend entirely on other plants for their food due to the absence of chlorophyll?

• Autotrophic plants

• Symbiotic plants

• Parasitic plants

• Carnivorous plants

What do insectivorous plants eat to get nutrients?

• Sunlight

• Insects

• Water

• Soil

Which type of plants obtain food from dead and decaying organisms?

• Insectivorous plants

• Saprophytic plants

• Parasitic plants

• Herbivorous plants

What is the process of taking food into the body called?

• Digestion

• Absorption

• Ingestion

• Assimilation

Which animals depend on both plants and animals for their food?

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Scavengers

What are animals called that live on the surface of other animals and suck blood for food?

• Endoparasites

• Ectoparasites

• Decomposers

• Scavengers