Biology Grade 8-Quarter 4

Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
REGION VI – WESTERN VISAYAS
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT- WRITTEN WORK 6

BIOLOGY GRADE 8- QUARTER 4
Competency: Explain how materials cycle in an ecosystem (S8LT-IVi-24). Suggest ways to

minimize human impact on the environment. (S8LP-IV-g-25)
I. Study the Diagram below and answer the given questions. Write the correct answer in your
answer sheet.
Organisms use and produce gases in photosynthesis and respiration. These gases flow through organisms
and the environment in a cyclic process called the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle and shows the
interdependence among organisms for these important gases.
Guide Questions:
1. In what process plants need carbon dioxide?
2. What process produces Carbon dioxide?
3. What gases are needed by plants during daytime________________? ______________night
time?
4. What gases are needed by animals during day and night time_____________? What gases are
released by animals ___________day and night time?

II. Multiple Choice. Write the LETTER that corresponds to the best answer.
5. When solar energy warms the Earth’s surface, how does evaporation occur?
A. liquid substances become gas.
B. liquid substances become solid.
C. liquid substances remain to be liquid.
D. liquid substances become gas, then solid & liquid again.
6. In the condensation process, what happens to the water vapour?

A. becomes gas.
B. becomes liquid.
C. becomes solid.
D. becomes liquid, gas then solid.
7. What happens to the water vapour during precipitation?

A. condenses into bigger and bigger droplets of solid particles.
B. condenses into bigger and bigger droplets of gas particles.
C. condenses into bigger and bigger droplets of water, solid and gas .
D. water vapor condenses into bigger and bigger droplets of water.
8. During the transpiration process, the water is released from ________?

A. seas, rivers, lakes and oceans.
B. wet substances
C. plants leaves
D. all parts of the world.
III. Below is a box containing words that you will use to fill in the blanks in the given clauz about the
Nitrogen Cycle. Select the best answer and write it in your answer sheet.
Denitrification Nitrification Nitrogen-fixation Ammonification

actinomycetes and fungi ammonia nitrate reduction addition pseudomonas
About 79 percent of the gases in the atmosphere is made up of nitrogen gas. Organisms use
nitrogen to build proteins and nucleic acids. Some bacteria convert nitrogen to ammonia. This process is
called _______9______. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria live in soil and are abundant in the nodules such as mung
beans. Plants and animals need nitrogen to make proteins, but they cannot take it in from the air. When

bacteria in the soil take nitrogen from the air it becomes ___10____. It can move through the food chain in
this form.
Phase 2 of the Nitrogen Cycle is ________11______. It is the decomposition of proteins of dead
and decaying plants and animals. This is made possible by the ammonifying bacteria _____12______. The
formed ammonia may escape to the atmosphere or remain in soil and get oxidized to nitrates.
The conversion of ammonia to nitrates is called ___13_____ and is considered as phase 3 of

Nitrogen Cycle. _____14____ is first converted to nitrite by bacteria Nitrosomonas. Nitrite is then converted
to nitrate by bacteria nitrobacter which are absorbed by the plants from the soil.
The opposite of nitrogen fixation is ______15______. It is the process of ___16_____of nitrates
back into nitrogen gas (N2) completing the Nitrogen Cycle. This is performed by bacterial species such as
pseudomonas under anaerobic condition.
IV. Identify the different human impacts to the environment shown by the images and suggest ways on
how to minimize these impacts to the environment.
Images - Human Impacts to Human Impacts to Ways to Minimize Impacts to
Environment Environment Environment
17.
18.
19.

20.
ANSWER KEY
1. Photosynthesis
2. Respiration
3. Carbon Dioxide , Oxygen (should be in order)

4. Oxygen , Carbon Dioxide

5. A
6. B
7. D
8. C
9. Nitrogen-fixation
10. Nitrate
11. Ammonification
12. Actinomycetes and fungi
13. Nitrification
14. Ammonia
15. Denitrification
16. Reduction
Images - Human Impacts to Human Impacts to Ways to Minimize Impacts to
Environment Environment Environment
Smoke from vehicles
17.
18.
Illegal logging
19.

Plastic pollution
20.
Dynamite Fishing

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SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT- WRITTEN WORK 6

Competency: Explain how materials cycle in an ecosystem (S8LT-IVi-24). Suggest ways to

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT- WRITTEN WORK 6

6. In the condensation process, what happens to the water vapour?

7. What happens to the water vapour during precipitation?

8. During the transpiration process, the water is released from ________?

Denitrification Nitrification Nitrogen-fixation Ammonification

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT- WRITTEN WORK 6

The conversion of ammonia to nitrates is called _13___ and is considered as phase 3 of

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT- WRITTEN WORK 6

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT- WRITTEN WORK 6

4. Oxygen , Carbon Dioxide

Smoke from vehicles

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT- WRITTEN WORK 6

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