Animals that eat the remains of other animals are called scavengers. They include creatures such as Tasmanian devils and vultures. Organisms (meaning both plants and anima â¦ ls) that eat the remains of other plants and animals are known as detritivores. These animals break down dead organic matter and feed on it, thereby returning nutrients to he ecosystem.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gneiss /ËnaÉªs/ is a common and widely distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks. It is often foliated (composed of layers of sheet-like planar structures).
Schist is shiny, and many schists contain garnets, staurolites or other mineral crystals that have grown within the rock. Gneiss is a foliated metamorphic rock. Layers of dark and light minerals stripe the rock, and sometimes it is possible to see how the direction of pressure deep in the Earth changed as the minerals formed. The change in direction forms eye-shaped pods of minerals, called augens (augen is German for eye.)