1. How many SKULLS did you find in your owl pellet? And what kind of animal did they come from?
3 points
3
Question 3
3.
Assume that your owl forms 1 pellet each day and that your pellet is average. How many animals would your owl eat in? (multiply the number of skulls you found)
______ in a week (x 7)
______ in a month (x 30)
______ in a year (x 365)
1 point
1
Question 4
4.
Why do you think farmers like having barn owls on their farms?
1 point
1
Question 5
5.
Which body part BONE did you find the coolest looking/most interesting and why?
1 point
1
Question 6
6.
Why do you think we are studying owl pellets in this chapter of ENERGY or ECOLOGY?
(What does this have to do with what we've learned so far?)
1 point
1
Question 7
7.
What can you say about the mammal population in the area where your owl pellet was found? Why?
(Ex. Is the mouse population high or low you think and why?)
1 point
1
Question 8
8.
8. What IS an owl pellet?
2 points
2
Question 9
9.
9. Draw a food chain/web based on the evidence you found from THIS DISSECTION.
(Don't forget to label organisms, include the sun, and use arrows)
1 point
1
Question 10
10.
10. What future questions do you have after this dissection? What do you still wonder about? What do you still want to know?
(you HAVE to ask something that you don't already know)
