<p>UNIT B4 ENERGY IN ECOSYSTEMS</p><p>Essential Question:</p><p>Should we pass laws which encourage, or even require people to eat “closer to the sun” .</p><p>Project: AN ANIMAL DESIGNED AROUND ENERGY</p><p>Choose an animal. Sketch the animal. </p><p>**Label 6 external features which have to do with energy</p><p>** describe 2 internal features which have to do with energy</p><p>** describe 2 behaviors and what these behaviors have to do with energy.</p><p>LEARNING TARGETS.</p><p>T1. Draw food chains and webs to represent the flow of energy in an ecosystem. </p><p>Describe how energy can enter a food chain or leave a food chain. </p><p>What does the Law of Conservation of Energy Tell us? About energy in ecosystems?</p><p>T2. sketch and explain how to measure the calories in a piece of food.</p><p>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 </p><p> The need to eat closer to the sun</p><p> The rarity of predators compared to herbivores in an ecosystem.</p><p>T4. Compare and Contrast photosynthesis, and cellular respiration</p><p> Is energy stored in food, or released from food?</p><p> Is sugar made, or broken down ?</p><p> Is oxygen used, or released ?  Is Carbon dioxide used, or released?</p><p> How do the 2 chemical equations relate to each other ?</p>