fall & rise.. The initial compensating response to an acute respiratory alkalosis is a modest decline in ECF bicarbonate concentration as the result of cellular buffering. Subsequent renal responses result in decreased ECF bicarbonate concentration through reduced renal bicarbonate reabsorption.
Plants can make their own food by photosynthesising however, animals need to consume plants for energy/as food if their were no plants animals would starve. plants also provideanimals with oxygen as a waste product of photosynthesis which animals need to survive