Guide 5A Nutrients
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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.
Nutrients Quiz
Quiz Directions
Complete all four sections and take the quiz on Canvas.
Use the learning objectives above to guide your studying.
Nutrients Media
Introduced in Nutrients & Energy section of this guide:
Feeding Plan
For this assignment you will be developing a feeding plan for an animal species of your choice. This can be a farm animal, a pet, or a wild animal that is being fed, like the hummingbirds. This can be an animal you are currently caring for, have cared for in the past, or may care for in the future.
Include in the plan you are submitting:
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the common and scientific name (Genus species) of your animal.
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the animal’s functional classification (herbivore, carnivore, omnivore) and what the animal (or its ancestors) eats/ate in the wild.
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a list of the food(s) you need to provide on a regular basis to supply the animal’s required nutrients and energy sources. This list may vary by season, age of the animal, or reproductive stage. It can include recipes and cite resources with additional information, if desired.
Media Directions
To be completed after taking the quiz on Canvas.
Once you have completed your animal feeding plan, upload it to Canvas. Your plan can be submitted as a PDF, a word document, a photo of the notes, or even a video. Multiple assignment formats are supported.
Animal Portfolio
Portfolio Directions
Consider adding your animal feeding plan to your final portfolio. Match your plan to one of the nine course outcomes. At this point, you may already have begun to populate four or more outcomes.
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5A: Nutrients