The Owl Pellet

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The Owl Pellet

• A Lab Activity
• Constructing a food web

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What is a food web

• Define the subject matter
• State what the audience will learn in this
  session
• Find out any relevant background and interest of
  the audience

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Top Predator

• List the topics to be covered
• List the times allotted to each

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Producers

• Grass
• Flowers
• Dead Leaves
• Green leaves

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Decomposers

• Bacteria and fungi

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Primary consumers - Herbivores

• Insects
• Grasshoppers

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Secondary cosumers

• Explain details
• Give an example
• Exercise to re-enforce learning

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Vole
Vole, small rodent confined mostly to the eastern
hemisphere. However, several species occur in the
United States. The most common American vole is
the field, or meadow, mouse the northern
red-backed mouse is found in Alaska and northern
Eurasia. The water vole is found in Europe and
Asia.Scientific classification Voles belong to
the family Muridae. The field mouse is classified
as Microtus pennsylvanicus, the northern
red-backed mouse as Clethrionomys rutilus, and
the water vole as Arvicola terrestris.

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Rat
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What do I eat?

• Insects
• Voles
• Rats
• Mice
• Shrews
• Gophers
• Lizzards
• Worms
• Grasshoppers
• Beetles
• Moths
• Bacterial and fungi