LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

SCIENCE 10
Quarter 3 Week 7
Worksheet Number 7

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A. HUMAN ACTIVITIES & STABILITY OF ECOSYSTEMS

Practice Task 1:
Secretes a dark-colored ink or substance to confuse
Example: Octopus
or blind an attacking predator.
Crickets have adapted legs for digging. They live
underground all the time and eat the roots of
1. Cricket or kuliglig grasses. They have adapted front legs for digging.
Their front legs are sorter and are made like a
shovel to help them make tunnels to travel I the soil.
2. Amamanggi or They can dig and burrow their way through rotting
salagubang trees and branches.
Oregano does not need much water. It usually
survives short dry phases if it is then watered
3. Oregano
generously. Some varieties even withstand
temperatures down to -15°C.

GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. • Structural Adaptations – These involve the physical features of an organism
that help them to survive in the environment including the different types of terrestrial
habitat. The physical changes are related to the changes in the physical
environment.
• Behavioral Adaptations – This is the change that affects the behavior of an
organism. This could be caused due to the changes in the surrounding environment
or due to the actions of other species.
• Physiological Adaptations – like structural adaptations, the physiological
adaptations also involve physical changes in the species. However, physiological
adaptations are not always seen in the organism’s appearance. This type of
adaptation can be either due to changes in the environment or due to the behavior of
other species.

2. • Plants adapt to their environment from necessity. Plants may also adapt by
growing lower and closer to the ground to shield themselves from wind and cold.
Desert environments may have some of the following adaptations, these help the
plant to conserve food, energy and water and still be able to reproduce effectively.
• Animals depend on their physical features to help them obtain food, keep
safe, build homes, withstand weather, and attract mates. These physical features are
called physical adaptations. They make it possible for the animal to live in a
particular place and in a particular way. Each adaptation has been produced by
evolution. This means that the adaptations have developed over many generations.
Practice Task 2:
Organisms My idea about how it/ they live, adapt, or survive
Bats are nocturnal animals, normally sleeping during the
day in shelters such as caves or empty buildings. This
Bats behavioral adaptation enables them to hide from predators
while they are asleep and vulnerable. They leave their
shelters to hunt at night.
One of the most important clown fish adaptations is an
immunity to the poison anemone secrete to kill their prey.
When a clown fish first approaches an anemone, he
touches the anemone several times, developing this
Clown Fish immunity. Clown fish have a thick mucus covering that
provides some protection from these stings. Living in these
anemones protect clown fish from predators, provides
them with a place to lay eggs and allows them an extra
opportunity for food.
Deers are well-adapted to notice and meet danger. Their
senses of smell and hearing are highly developed, so that
Deer
they sense danger quickly. Their eyes are set on the side
of their heads to allow for all-around viewing.

GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. Yes, from a zoological park and by watching animal documentaries from television
and YouTube.

2. In our area or locality, there are bats that can be found.

Practice Task 3:
Direct Indirect
Aesthetic
Organism Value Economic Economy
Value
Value Value
Provides wood
Coconut Tree
and shade

Plants Clean the air

Animals Food

Vital for the

preservation of
Bee
ecological
balance
GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. • Direct Economic Value – Coconut Tree, Animals
• Indirect Economic Value – Plants
• Aesthetic Value – Bee
2. Yes, these species are an integral component of our ecosystem, and the value
they provide in terms of services are very important because they represent an
important level of integration in living nature.

Practice Task 4: Look at Me

GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. In the picture, we can say that there are varying densities of people, one has high
densities and others have low densities.

2. A factor that regulates population’s growth and is influenced by population density

like shortage of resources, is called density-dependent limiting factor. If the
population’s density does not directly influence changes in population’s growth like
natural disasters, then it is called a density-independent limiting factor.

3. If a population’s density is very high, that means there are lot of organisms/people
crowded into a certain area. There are progress and the conditions are balanced.

4. Population density is the concentration of individuals within a species in a specific

geographic locale. Population density data can be used to quantify demographic
information and to assess relationships with ecosystems, human health, and
infrastructure.

Practice Task 5: Analyze Me

Situation 1: The human population is currently growing at an exponential rate. How
can this be explained in terms of birth rate and death rate?

Birth rate is greater than the death rate of human population. This means that
there’s more people that are being born.

Situation 2: the monkey-eating eagle is considered as endangered. What does this

mean in terms of the birth and death rate of monkey-eating eagle?

Death rate is greater than the birth rate of monkey-eating eagle. This means that
there is an exponential loss to the population of monkey-eating eagle because of
natural causes and human activities like poaching.

Practice Task 6: Carry On

GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. There is a gradual increase of goat’s population between mid-May and mid-June.

2. As the goat’s population reaches August to September, their population stabilized.

This means that resources are limited, and population exhibits logistic growth. In
logistic growth, population expansion decreases as resources become scarce, and it
levels off when the carrying capacity of the environment is reached.
3. Carrying capacity can be defined as a species’ average population size in a
particular habitat. The species population size is limited by environmental factors like
adequate food, shelter, water, and mates. If these needs are not met, the population
will decrease until the resource rebounds.

4. There are several ways a carrying capacity can be affected. One of the main ways
are the finite resources which would lead to the competition between the organisms
that eat the same food. However, the organisms that have the most favorable traits
are the ones that can survive (which is supported by the idea of natural selection).

Practice Task 7: Follow the Pattern

A. Population of Rats

GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. Describe the population of rats
- Based on the graph, as months progress the population of rats also rises.

2. What is the shape of the graph? What do you call this growth curve?
- The graph has a J-shaped curve which exhibits exponential growth.
B. Population of Grasshopper

GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. What does the graph show about the population of grasshoppers?
- Based on the graph, as months progress the population of grasshoppers also rises.

2. What is the shape of the graph? What do you call this growth curve?
- The graph has a J-shaped curve which exhibits exponential growth.

3. How would it affect the carrying capacity?

- The species population size is limited by environmental factors like adequate food,
shelter, water, and mates. If these needs are not met, the population will decrease
until the resource rebounds.

4. Explain the relationship between population growth and carrying capacity.

- The population grows exponentially until it nears the carrying capacity. As the
population nears the carrying capacity, population growth slows significantly.
Practice Task 8: Follow the Pattern
Density-Independent or
Situation Limiting Factor
Density-Dependent
1. Mrs. Rosales has 55 students in
her Biology class, but she has room
for 50. Because the room was
crowded, the 5 students were Density-Dependent Emigration
asked to go to the curriculum
chairperson to change their
schedules.
2. The population of dinoflagellates
in Laguna de Bay increases due to
an increase in organic substance in Density-Dependent Resources
the body of water cause by water
pollution.
3. A new strain of Dengue virus
Density-Independent Human Activities
breaks out in the country.
4. Super typhoon Yolanda caused Natural
Density-Independent
many residents to leave Leyte. Disasters
5. Population of wild boar
decreases because of Density-Independent Human Activities
deforestation.
6. An increase in population of
house lizards in Barangay Himpot
Density-Dependent Predation
causes a decrease in population of
mosquitoes.

GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. Situations 2 and 4 were brought by human activities. This means that, we
humans, caused tremendous amount of destruction to our environment that resulted
to depletion of natural resources and climate changes.

2. When an organic matter increases in a certain body f water, the number of

decomposers will increase. Theses decomposers grow rapidly and use a great deal
of oxygen during their growth. This leads to a depletion of oxygen as the
decomposition process occurs. Alack of oxygen can kill aquatic organisms and other
living creatures surrounding that area.

3. For me, to limit the increasing population is to give proper awareness of what will
be the effects of this to our future generation. Giving proper education means
opening doors and provide disadvantaged kids and young people with a “way out”.

4. Increase in the world’s population will cause additional strains on resources. More
people means an increased demand for food, water, housing, energy, healthcare,
transportation, and more. All that consumption contributes to ecological degradation,
increased conflicts, and a higher risk of large-scale disasters like pandemics.
ASSESSMENT:
1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
6. b.
7. b.
8. c.
9. c.
10. a.