Energy Pyramid

Title: Energy Pyramid
Date: March 13, 1987
Category: School Assignment
Current Status: Submitted to the Texas Board of Education for use in their Science Curricula

Ahhhh... another fabulous example of what happens when my lack of artistic ability joins forces with a 6th grade science assignment.

Here we have what is called the "Energy Pyramid" that explains... uhhh... something. I'm not sure I completely understand this anymore. I get the sun... it sends the heat and light and crap that makes the plants grow, like corn, which is eaten by the chickens, which are then eaten by people. But why is the sun at the top and outside of the pyramid? If it's not in the pyramid, then is it really part of the pyramid? Does this imply that the sun eats the people who eat the chickens who eat the corn that eats the sun's energy? Is this specist tripe saying that humans are where energy ends because we are the top? What if a human gets eaten by a tiger? Does the tiger get a little triangle above the human? I'm confused. Particularly since energy doesn't disappear, it just transfers to other things. The pyramid concept seems to say that everytime something is eaten, the amout of energy that exists gets smaller until it disappears altogether. Dammit! How am I ever going to smack those fifth graders around on that stupid Jeff Foxworthy show if I can't even understand the crayon representations of basic scientific concepts!??!?

I apparently did a "good job" and got an "A" despite the fact that my chicken looks like a fat crow with tassled carrots for legs. And that human has a really gimpy arm. And why is the chicken eating what looks like straw? It's supposed to be corn, but corn doesn't usually appear as yellow sticks.