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Welcome!Please get your interactive notebook
and pick up your owl pellet folder from the lab table.
Please read the board!
Owl pellets
What were the most common bones? What do owls eat? What are their prey? How many animals were in your pellet?
Sooooo . . .
A barn owl produces on average two pellets a day.
Prey eaten per day ___________
Prey eaten per week ____________
Prey eaten per month ____________
How much space would this food chain require?
If each rodents needs 5 m2 to find enough food for itself, how much space would all the rodents in the one pellet need to survive?
How much space would all the rodents for one MONTH need to survive?
Do owls need more or less space than a rodent? WHY???
How do living organisms transform or use energy?
Movement
Metabolism… transforming chemicals like food into energy like ATP
Heat… a by-product of metabolism
Growth and Development
Reproduction
Energy is converted between trophic levels. Energy is always converted as it moves from one
trophic level to the next. Most of the energy is converted into a form that can’t be used again.
How would one organism use up it’s energy?
Energy is converted into motion, heat, growth, and metabolism.
**Law of Conservation of Energy:
**Energy is neither created nor destroyed; it is transformed from one type to another
Example: sunplantappleATP (fuel of cells)you writing these notes
How do living organisms transform or use energy?
Movement
Metabolism… transforming chemicals like food into energy like ATP
Heat… a by-product of metabolism
Growth and Development
Reproduction
**The Rule of 10%Of all energy taken in by a trophic level, most of it is used in growth, motion, metabolism or body heat. Only 10% of the energy is available to the next trophic level.