Difference between revisions of "Diet"

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Diet is the foods that an animal eats.

Different animals need different diets, but they all need the right balance of different nutrients.

If a diet is not balanced it can cause an animal to become ill, or not to grow properly.

100 years ago humans were shorter because most people didn't have a balanced diet.


A crocodile is a carnivore. It's diet is only meat.	A cow is a herbivore. It's diet is grass and grains like corn.	A hedgehog is an omnivore. It's diet is insects, snails, mushrooms, grass roots and berries.

Diet is the foods that an animal eats.

Different animals have different diets.

Diets generally contain:


A crocodile is a carnivore. It's diet is only meat.	A cow is a herbivore. It's diet is grass and grains like corn.	A hedgehog is an omnivore. It's diet is insects, snails, mushrooms, grass roots and berries.

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+:[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0198359373/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0198359373&linkCode=as2&tag=nrjc-21&linkId=952a73bbb09d222ecc4b50d200679849 ''Diet, pages 74-75, 118-119, 304, GCSE Biology; Third Edition, Oxford University Press, AQA '']
+:[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471851354/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471851354&linkCode=as2&tag=nrjc-21&linkId=9012a0d354024419214fb3ad5ac44ba0 ''Diet, well-balanced, pages 58-9, GCSE Combined Science Trilogy 1, Hodder, AQA '']