X1011597835-00178-40351</DOCNO> Volume 8: Temperate Grasslands Herbivorous (plant-eating) animals feed on plants, carnivorous (meat-eating) animals feed on herbivores (and usually eat some plants as well), and the wastes from all of these &#151; leaves, fallen branches, dead plants and animals &#151; are decomposed to release chemical compounds that are absorbed by plant roots, enabling the plants to grow.
(X1011597835-00178-40351</DOCNO> Volume 8: Temperate Grasslands Herbivorous (plant-eating) animals; feed; on plants, carnivorous) (animals; feed; T:on herbivores) (chemical compounds; are absorbed; by plant roots) (animals; eat as well; T:usually) (the plants; to grow; )
X1011597835-00178-40351</DOCNO> Volume 8: Temperate Grasslands Herbivorous (plant-eating) animals animals chemical compounds animals the plants
feed feed are absorbed eat as well to grow
on plants, carnivorous
T:on herbivores
by plant roots
T:usually