Nora's Synthesis Essay

Nora is snowed in a remote mountain range for the winter and needs a strategy to enable her to survive the longest. There are peaches, wheat, and hens; Nora is able to eat all of these, though the hen is able to eat the peaches and the wheat. If Nora eats a mixture of peaches, wheat porridge, eggs, feeding the hens well to keep the eggs coming until all the hens die, this would enable her to survive the longest. When studying the different food chains and information about the organisms in Nora’s location we know off the start that hens lay eggs. Hens can lay about 5 eggs per week, and 5 eggs have 5g of protein in each one themselves. This will allow her to have nutrients from just the eggs because eggs have the highest quality of protein you can get. Also when she is eating the hen they are most likely reproducing somewhere else in the mountain range, which will allow her to continue this process for more than enough time to escape. Nora could attract the chickens by laying wheat out, when they come she can trap them and this way she would be able to get all the eggs that they lay. She could feed them the wheat considering she has two 100-lb sack of wheat. While feeding the chickens wheat, she would still have more than enough wheat to use it for herself. The peaches she could ration more for herself than giving that away. …show more content…
Taking into consideration when energy is transferred from one organism to another only 10% is transferred as energy and the other is destroyed as heat, recycled, etc. When Nora does this process she is rationing the eggs and wheat, feeding the hens to enable their survival as well as making sure she can stay alive because their survival is key to Nora’s survival. This strategy will allow Nora to survive the time that she needs to be