Guide 5A
Nutrients
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In this guide you will examine feeding strategies necessary for obtaining nutrients and energy.
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Nutrients Guide Contents
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Nutrients Objectives
Nutrients & Energy
Describe animal nutrient and energy requirements, including their availability in food sources; provide the characteristics water as well as how animals gain and lose water; and discuss the animal need for water as well as the structures and behaviors related to water management.
Food Webs
Compare and contrast how nutrients cycle and energy flows through a food web; and map the nutrient cycling and energy flow through the trophic levels of a terrestrial and an aquatic food web.
Feeding Strategies
Describe different feeding strategies and the structures animals possess to make these strategies possible; explain what an herbivore is, including types of herbivory, feeding structures used, and reliance on producers; and provide characteristics of deer including taxonomic classification, functional classification, and feeding structures.
Animal Defenses
List different types of animal structural and behavioral defenses and provide an example of a species that utilizes each defense; and describe different forms of camouflage including the species and form of camouflage, and how the camouflage works.
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