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Assignment:
1. What is a producer?
2. What is a consumer?
3. What happens to useful energy when it is transformed from one form to another?
4. What happens to the energy in an organism when that organism is eaten by another organism?
5. Identify Your Community List the ten people you consider to be the most important members of your community. Explain why you think each is important and how they interact within your community.
6. Look at the energy pyramid shown in the lesson. Suppose a trout eats a smelt and then a human eats the trout. About how many of the original 1000 calories contained in the algae reach the human? How does this compare to a situation in which the human ate the smelt directly?
7. Personal Reflection: Would you ever consider being a vegetarian? Why or why not? Would you ever consider being a vegan? Why or why not? List 5 things that a vegetarian would NOT eat, and 5 things a vegetarian WOULD eat.
8. What do you think is meant by the phrase "eating low on the food chain"? Could you feed more or fewer people from the same amount of land if everyone was a herbivore or if everyone was a carnivore?
9. Imagine you are an organism that lives in the pond. You can be the largemouth bass, the algae on the surface of the pond, the crawfish, or any organism you decide to be. When you decide which organism you want to pretend to be, make a story or poem about a day in your life in the community.
10. If you had your choice, would you rather be a producer, consumer, or decomposer? Why?