Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION V- BICOL
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF IRIGA CITY

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

Science 10 Quarter 3 Week 7.2
Name: ___________________________________________ Date: _____________
Section: __________________________________________ Score: ____________

I. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPT
Why should you care if the number of organisms is increasing or decreasing?
Populations that are growing or diminishing can be an indicator of potential problems in the
organisms’ environment. The increase in the number of individuals in a population is called
population growth. The maximum population size an environment can support is called its
carrying capacity.
What will happen if population size rises above the carrying capacity? For you to
understand how population of organisms affects biodiversity, the set of activities in the
succeeding pages is set to be accomplished for one week of the third quarter.

II. LEARNING SKILLS

MELC: Explain the relationship between population growth and carrying capacity.
(S10LT- IIIi-42)
Objectives:
1. Define population density and carrying capacity.
2. Explain the factors that affect the carrying capacity and population growth.
3. Provide solutions to prevent the reduction of the carrying capacity of an organism.
4. Describe exponential and logistic growth curve.
5. Identify factors that affect population.
6. Analyze the causes of the limiting factors to the population growth and predict
their effect.

III. ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITY 1 – Look at Me
Direction: Analyze the picture below. Observe the
number of population density in a certain community
and relate the population density

ACTIVITY 3 – Discover Me
1. Look at the 2 boxes below and compare your
observations.
 ACTIVITY 4 – FILL ME!
Materials: food coloring, dipper, bucket, water
1. Fill the bucket with water and add food coloring so that it will be more visible in a
clear container.
2. Place the empty clear container on top of a table.
3. Pour dipper of water into the container while scooping water out of the clear
container and pour it back to the bucket.
ACTIVITY 5– ANALYZE ME!
Direction: Analyze the following situations:

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?

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

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

ACTIVITY 6 – CARRY ON!

Direction: Examine the graph below. Look
into the number of goats corresponding the
dates.

ACTIVITY 7 - FOLLOW THE PATTERN

A. From the given set of data on the population of rats and grasshoppers, construct
separate graph for each datum.
Population of rats
Month Population of rats
B.
2 5
3 10
4 15
5 25
6 40
Population of Grasshopper
Month Population of grasshopper
1 2
2 5
3 9
4 18
5 27

ACTIVTY 8 – Dependent or Independent?

Direction: Read each situation in the table below, then state if it is a density- independent
limiting factor or a density-dependent limiting factor. Indicate the specific
limiting factor that is occurring.
 Density-
Independen Limiting
Situation
t or Density- Factor
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
asked to got to the curriculum chairperson to change their
schedule.
2. Dinoflagellates in Laguna de Bay increase in population due to
increase in organic substance in the body of water brought by
water pollution.
3. A new strain of dengue virus breaks out in the country.
4. Super typhoon Yolanda caused many residents to leave Leyte.
5. Population of wild boar decreases because of deforestation.
6. An increase in population of house lizard in Barangay Himpot
causes a decrease in population of mosquito.
B. Analysis
Direction: Answer the following questions:
I. Based on Activity 1,
1. What can you say about the population density of the people in the pictures?
2. What could be the probable reasons why some areas have lower population density
than the others?
3. Why is there a small area with high density population?
4. What is population density?
III. Based on Activity 3,
1. What are the differences between the number and arrangement of the circle in boxes
A and B?
2. If boxes A and B represent two different ecosystems and the circle represents the
organisms in each ecosystem, what are the differences between the number and
distribution of organisms in each ecosystem?
3. What do you think will happen to the ecosystem represented by box B if the number
of organisms continues to increase? Why?
IV. Based on Activity 4,
1. Why did the water level rise steadily?
2. What is the ratio of pouring water into the container and scooping out water from the
container?
2. What does pouring of water into the container represent and scooping out from the
container back to the bucket represent?

VI. Based on activity 7,

1. What did you notice with the population of goat between mid-May and mid-June?
2. What did you notice with the population of goat from August to September? What
could explain this?
3. What is the carrying capacity?
4. What affects the carrying capacity of an organism?

VII. Based on activity 8,

A. 1. Describe the population of rats.
2.What is the shape of the graph? What do you call this growth curve?
B. 1. What does the graph show on the population of grasshopper?
2. What is the shape of the graph? What do you call this growth curve?
3. How would it affect the carrying capacity?
4. Explain the relationship between population growth and carrying capacity.
VIII. Based on activity 9,
1. What situation was/were brought about by human activities? What does this tell us?
2. What happens when there is an increase of organic substance in the body of
water?
3. What will you do to solve the problem? What possible solutions can you think to
limit population growth?
4. What are the effects of population growth?

C. ABSTRACTION
While populations would probably continue to grow in size, a population of organisms
cannot grow forever – its growth will be limited or stopped, at some point, and the death rate
will be greater than the birth rate.
Population density refers to the numbers of organisms per unit area. If a population
density is very high, that means there are a lot of organisms crowded into a certain area.
Density-independent limiting factors can stop a population from growing such as
natural disaster, temperature, sunlight and human activities while Density-dependent limiting
factors come into play when a population reaches a certain number of organisms like when a
population reaches a certain size, there won’t be enough resources like food, shelter and
water for all the organisms. This could cause the population to stop growing when it reaches
the maximum number of organisms than can be supported or carried by the environment.
This number is known as the POPULATION’S CARRYING CAPACITY in a particular
environment. Each population of organisms has a different carrying capacity depending on
the amount of resources available in the area in which it lives.
Before a population reaches its carrying capacity, it experiences a period of rapid
growth. This period is called exponential population growth resulting in a J – shaped curve.
In logistic growth, population expansion decreases as resources become scarce and it levels
off when the carrying capacity of the environment is reached. The curve is S-shape.
D. APPLICATION
I. Define the following terms:
a. Population f. Logistic growth
b. Population density g Density-dependent limiting factor
c. Carrying capacity h. Density-independent limiting factor
d. Exponential growth
e. Density-independent limiting factor
II. Enumerate at least three (3) factors that affect population growth.
III. Differentiate exponential growth and logistic growth.

IV. REFLECTION
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V. REFERENCES

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