Project: an ANIMAL DESIGNED AROUND ENERGY

UNIT B4 ENERGY IN ECOSYSTEMS

Essential Question:

Should we pass laws which encourage, or even require people to eat “closer to the sun” .

Project: AN ANIMAL DESIGNED AROUND ENERGY

Choose an animal. Sketch the animal.

**Label 6 external features which have to do with energy

** describe 2 internal features which have to do with energy

** describe 2 behaviors and what these behaviors have to do with energy.

LEARNING TARGETS.

T1. Draw food chains and webs to represent the flow of energy in an ecosystem.

Describe how energy can enter a food chain or leave a food chain.

What does the Law of Conservation of Energy Tell us? About energy in ecosystems?

T2. sketch and explain how to measure the calories in a piece of food.

T3. Explain the shape of an energy pyramid. What pattern observed in nature are we representing with a the energy pyramid? Relate this pattern to

 The need to eat closer to the sun

 The rarity of predators compared to herbivores in an ecosystem.

T4. Compare and Contrast photosynthesis, and cellular respiration

 Is energy stored in food, or released from food?

 Is sugar made, or broken down ?

 Is oxygen used, or released ?  Is Carbon dioxide used, or released?

 How do the 2 chemical equations relate to each other ?