Sunday, May 19, 2013

Energy through Ecosystems

Three hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
-- G. Tyler Miller, Jr., American Chemist (1971)

Send me an email that provides you thoughts to this quote.



Here are a few photographs that I took on a weekend trip in Eastern Oregon. How would you describe this ecosystem? What biotic factors are there? What abiotic factors do you think play the biggest role?











Food Web Exploration:
1. Key Vocabulary - By the end of this exploration, you should have an understanding of the following terms:

  • decomposer
  • producer
  • herbivore
  • omnivore
  • carnivore
  • scavenger
2. Gould League Foodweb - go to this page and work through several of the webs


Matter and Energy Flow by Bozeman Biology

Energy Pyramids

Assessment on Wednesday

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