Chapter 40

Discuss how metabolic rate changes with levels of activity, body -temperature regulation, and size.

Describe how ATP is produced for short and rapid activities versus long and sustained activities.

Explain how you would measure the metabolic rate of an animal.

Explain why the world record speed for a 10 -m race is faster than that for a marathon.

Describe what happens in an endotherm and an ectotherm when outside temperature gets cold, and what happens when it gets hot.

Describe the order in which energy reserves are used in negative energy balance, such as starvation.

Name four ways in which animals capture prey and, for each, name an organism that uses it.

Draw the path of food through the vertebrate digestive tract, naming and describing the major function of each part.

Name the principal sites of digestion of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, and indicate the principal enzymes involved in breaking down each.

Compare and contrast foregut and hindgut fermentation.