Requirement
#4:
Do ONE of the
following:
a)
Under the guidance of a nature center or natural history museum, make two
study skins of rats or mice. Tell the uses of study skins and mounted specimens
respectively.
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b)
Take good pictures of two kinds of mammals in the wild. Record light conditions,
film used, exposure, and other factors, including notes on the activities
of the pictured animals.
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c)
Write a life history of a native game mammal that lives in your area, covering
the points outlined in requirement 3c. List sources for this information.
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d)
Make and bait a tracking pit. Report what mammals and other animals came
to the bait.
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e)
Visit a natural history museum. Report on how specimens are prepared and
cataloged. Explain the purposes of museums.
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f)
Write a report of 500 words on a book about a mammal species.
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g)
Trace two possible food chains of carnivorous mammals from soil through
four stages to the mammal. |
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for (d)
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for (g)
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Animal
Food Chain Project
Producers and Consumers
1) Print out the drawings from the above website
and then cut them apart.
2) Sort the pictures into groups according
to energy sources; producers, herbivores (first order consumers), 1st level
carnivores (second order consumers), 2nd level carnivore (third order consumers),
scavengers and decomposers.
3) With the colored pencils mark each group
a different color. For example mark the energy sources with yellow, the
producers with green, the herbivores with blue, the 1st order carnivores
with orange, the second order carnivores with red, the scavengers with
purple and the decomposers with brown.
Construct 2 food chains as they would occur
in the wild.
4) Paste or tape your pictures in proper sequence.
Use arrows to show that energy is passed from one organism to another.
(Arrows go from the animal that is eaten to the animal doing the eating). |
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