Week 2 Environmental Science

NAME : _____________________________________ YR&SEC : ________ DATE : _______

Activity No. 1
Energy Flow in Ecosystem Vocabulary Word Search

DIRECTION: Find the following terminologies inside the table and encircle it. (15 pts.)

1. Decomposer 9. Food web

2. Producer 10. Food pyramid

3. Carnivore 11. Food chain
4. Omnivore 12. Heat loss
5. Herbivore 13. Organism
6. Biomass 14. Energy transfer
7. Sunlight 15. Ecosystem
8. Consumer

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NAME : __________________________________ YR&SEC : ________ DATE : _________

Activity No. 2
A. Ecology Food Chain Copy and Write (10 pts)

Direction: Write the missing word. Select the correct word in the box provided.

Diet herbivore decomposer

Prey carnivore nutrients
Ecosystem omnivore producer
Organism detrivore consumer

1. A __________________ eats both plants and animals.

2. Animals need __________________to survive.

3. A __________________ makes its own food.

4. An interacting group of components in an _____________.

5. A __________________ eats decomposing organic matter.

6. An __________________only eats plants or other producers.

7. A. __________________animal is eaten by a predator

8. A __________________ is what an animal eat.

9. A __________________ eats other organisms.

10. What role do you play in the food web?________________

B. Direction: Cut out pictures from used magazine, newspaper, catalogue, and brochure and
make your own food chain and food web in your most creative way. Identify which are the
producer and the 1st order consumer, 2nd order consumer and the third level consumer. (8
pts) (Bond paper)
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C. Explain why biosphere is considered as dynamic and open system? (2 pts)

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NAME : _______________________________ YR&SEC : ________ DATE : ______________

Make a Journal (15 pts.)

1. In an ecological pyramid, what happens to energy biomass and of species as you move
up? Why? (3 pts)

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2. What is biomass? (3 pts)

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3. In an ecosystem, can there be more carnivores than herbivores? Explain why or why not?
(3 pts)

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4. What is the 10% rule? What is its significance? Why is energy lost? (3 pts)

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5. What happens if the food chain is disrupted? What factors disrupt the balance of this
species? Give ways on how to prevent this disruption. (3pts)

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