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Science – Grade 4
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Quarter 2 - Module 9: Effects of Interactions among Organism in their Environment
First Edition, 2020
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Department of Education Republic of the Philippines

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What This Module is About

This module contains lessons intended for a Grade 4 pupil like

you. The different activities provided are simple and easy to follow. You
will learn at a pace that is appropriate for you.

It is expected that after you finish this module, you will be able to
learn the different interactions among living things and its effects to their
environment. Discover, explore, and have fun in learning.

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 What I Need to Know

You already learned that ecological interaction is between

two types of organisms living in the same ecosystem. However, in
reality, there are many kinds of plants, animals and other organisms
which live or grow in an ecosystem. In real situation, interactions may
may not only be between two organisms but also take place among
more than two kinds of organisms living or growing in an ecosystem.

What are some types of interactions between and among

living things? What are the effects of such interactions in their
environment? These are some of the questions that will be answered in
this module.
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 At the end of this module, you will be able to;

1. identify the types of interactions among living things,

and;
2. describe the effects of interactions among organisms in
their environment.

Time duration: 4 days

How to Learn from this Module

To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:

• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.

• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and

exercises diligently.

• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

Icons of this Module

What I Need This part contains learning objectives

to Know that are set for you to learn as you go
along the module.

What I Know This is an assessment as to your

level of knowledge to the subject
matter at hand, meant specifically to
gauge prior related knowledge
What’s In This part connects previous lesson
with that of the current one.

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 What’s New An introduction of the new lesson
through various activities, before it
will be presented to you

What is It These are discussions of the

activities as a way to deepen your
discovery and understanding of the
concept.
What’s More These are follow-up activities that are
intended for you to practice further in
order to master the competencies.

What I Have Activities designed to process what

Learned you have learned from the lesson

What I Can These are tasks designed to

Do showcase your skills and knowledge
gained, and applied into real-life
concerns and situations.
Post This assessment evaluates your level
Assessment of mastery in achieving the learning
objectives

More Activities designed to increase the

Activities strength of your skills and knowledge
gained and tends to induce
repetitions of actions / learning.

Week 9 Day 1

What I Know

A. Directions: Select the letter of the correct answer.

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1. What is the study of interaction of living things with one another
and with its environment?
A. community C. ecosystem
B. ecology D. population

2. You put twelve big fishes in an aquarium which contains three

gallons of water. You fed them with the right amount of food. After
five days, some of the fishes died. Why did it happen?
A. The smelly and cloudy water in the aquarium was not replaced.
B. There was no enough space for the fishes and they compete for
food.
C. The aquarium was not moved to another place.
D. The aquarium did not have enough temperature.

3. There are different species of animals and plants living together

in the same environment. How is this organization classified?
A. association C. ecology
B. community D. population

4. What will happen if there are more predators than preys in an

ecosystem?
A. The source of food will decrease.
B. The source of food will increase.
C. The source of food will remain the same.
D. Other animals will also decrease in number.

5. Which of the following can best represent the ecosystem?

A.

B.

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D.

B. Directions: Identify the type of relationship that exists between the

following organisms. Match column A with column B.

1. orchid and tree A. commensalism

2. plants and animals B. competition
3. lions and a buffalo C. mutualism
4. carabao and heron D. parasitism
5. ticks and dogs E. predation

Lesson Identify Changes in

1 Materials that are Useful
in the Environment

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 Have you ever imagined a life without your neighbors? Life could
be very incomplete and boring. It is the interactions with your neighbors
that give life to your everyday activities.
Organisms interact with one another in many ways. The
relationships may benefit one and harm the other, benefit both, or harm
both. They are mutually interdependent. Interactions can be beneficial
and harmful among organisms and their environment. All these
interactions take place in an ecosystem.
In this module, you will study various changes, ways, and activities
which have useful effects to the environment.

What’s In

Directions: Fit the words in the box with configuration clues below.
Refer to the words found inside the box for your
answers. Write your answers in your Science Activity
Notebook.

commensalism parasitism mutualism

competition predation

1. A kind of relationship where the

participating organisms benefit from
each other. This is a give and take
kind of relationship.

2. In this kind of relationship, one

participating organism benefit from
the other, while the other organism
is neither benefited nor harmed.

3. It is a relationship where one kills

and eats another. The one who is

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 eaten is called a prey and the one
who eats is a predator.

4. A relationship where one organism

harms or affects the other but does
not necessarily kill and eat it. The
one being harmed or affected is
known as the host while the one that
benefited is known as the parasite.

5. A relationship where the participating

organisms fight for the same
materials in their environment.

Week 9 Day 2

What’s New

Housemates? Ecomates!

Directions: Analyze each picture and describe the interactions that

exist among the organisms. Write your answers to the
questions in your Answer Sheet.

Picture A

Questions:
1. What do bees do with the guava
flowers?

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2. What type of interaction is shown
in this situation?
3. What are the possible effects that
this interaction may give? Why?

Picture B

Questions:
1. In an interaction between a tree
and a fern, which organism
provides a home?
2. Is the tree harmed because of the
fern attached to its branch?
3. What effects does the interaction
bring between a fern and a tree?

Picture C
Questions:
1. Which one is benefited? Which one
is badly harmed? Why?
2. What may happen to the population
of the insect if the number of frogs
increases?
3. What do you call this kind of
interaction?

Picture D

Questions:
1. What do you call this kind of
interaction?
2. Which organism is benefited from
the interaction?
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3. Aside from sucking your blood,
what other effects can a mosquito
bring to humans?

Picture E

Questions:
1. What type of interaction do these
plants have?
2. What did you observe about the
flowering plant that grows below
the tree?
3. What do they compete for?

What Is It

Questions: Write your answers in your Science Activity notebook.

1. What type of interaction exists in the following:

a. When both organisms benefited from each other.
_______________________________________________
b. Wherein organisms compete for survival.
_______________________________________________
c. Where one organism benefited while the other is badly
harmed.
________________________________________________
d. When one organism benefit while the other is neither harmed
nor affected.
_________________________________________________

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2. In what way competition affects the two interacting organisms?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

Learning Circuit!

Types of Interaction in the ecosystem:

● Mutualism- is a type of interaction where both species benefit

from the relationship.
● Commensalism- is a type of interaction where one organism
benefits while the other is neither harmed nor
affected.
● Predation –is a type of interaction where one benefits while
the other is harmed or badly affected. The one that
usually benefits is called a predator. The one that
is harmed is called a prey.
● Parasitism- is a type of interaction where the organism that
usually benefits is called a parasite and the one
that is affected is called a host.
● Competition- is a type of a harmful interaction. It is the striving
between organisms for the things needed for
survival such as food, shelter, sunshine, space,
water, and other things. In this kind of
relationship, each organism is called a competitor.

All organisms interact with the things around them. Living things
affect one another and are also affected by the non-living things that
surround them. Living and non-living things interact which allows
essential life-sustaining process on Earth to continue.

What’s More

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Who’s benefited? Who’s harmed?

From the drawing above, identify the organisms involved in the

ecological relationship enumerated below.

Relationships Organisms Involved

1. Mutualism
2. Commensalism
3. Predation
4. Commensalism
5. Competition

Questions:
1. How does the horse and the cow affect the population of the
grasses in the ecosystem?
2. When the population of grasses is low, how will it affect the cow
and the horse?

Week 9 Day 3

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 What I Have Learned

Let’s start the Adventure!

Directions: Identify the type of interaction that exists among these

organisms. Write your answers in your Answer
Sheet/Science Activity Notebook.

1. ________ 2. ________ 3. ________

4. ________ 5. ________

What I Can Do

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 Directions: Analyze the following interactions among organisms.
Give the effects of each interaction to their environment.
Write your answers in your Answer Sheet/Science
Activity notebook.

1. Male elephants fight with each other so that the dominant one will get
to breed with the female.
2. Barnacles are small sea animals which attach themselves to the body
of whales to get food and to move from one place to another.
3. The pine beetle lays its eggs in the branches of pine trees. When the
larvae are hatched, they feed on the leaves of the pine tree.
4. The lichen consists of a fungus and an algae growing together. The
fungus gets food from the algae while the algae get a place to live in.
5. A Pitcher plant catches insects for food

Post Assessment

How Much Did You Learn?

A. Directions: Match column A with column B. Identify the type of
relationship that exists between the following organisms.

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 Write the letter of your answers in your Answer
Sheet/Science Activity notebook.

Column A Column B
1. cow and carabao A. commensalism
2. ticks and dogs B. competition
3. carabao and heron C. mutualism
4. grass and goat D. parasitism
5. orchid and tree E. predation

B. Directions: Multiple Choice. Select the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which of the following best represent an ecosystem?

A.

B.

C.

D.

2. What will happen if there are more predators than preys in an

ecosystem?
A. The source of food will increase.
B. The source of food will decrease.
C. The source of food will remain the same.
D. Other animals will also decrease in number.

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3. There are different species of animals and plants living together in the
same environment. How is this organization classified?
A. association C. ecology
B. community D. population
4. What is the study of interaction of living things with one another and
with its environment?
A. community C. ecosystem
B. ecology D. population
5. You put twelve big fishes in an aquarium which contains three gallons
of water. You fed them with the right amount of food. After five
days, some of the fishes died. Why did it happen?
A. The smelly and cloudy water in the aquarium was not replaced.
B. There was no enough space for the fishes and they compete for
food.
C. The aquarium was not moved to another place.
D. The aquarium did not have enough temperature.
Week 9 Day 4

Additional Activities

Cut and Paste!

Directions: In your Answer Sheet/Science Activity notebook. Cut some
pictures of different plants and animals showing different
interactions and make a collage out of them. Pictures are
provided at the end of this module.

*A collage is any artistic composition/representation of any subject

matter.

QUARTER 2- MODULE 9

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zLesson Effects of Interactions Among
1 Organisms in their Environment
Answer Key

What I Know
A. 1. B 2. B 3. B 4. B 5. C
B. 1. A 2. E 3. B 4. C 5. D
What’s In
1.mutualism 2. commensalism 3. predation
4. parasitism 5. competition
What’s New
Picture A (Mutualism)
1. The bee sip nectar.
2. mutualism
3. Nectar of flowers obtained by the bee feeds other baby bees in the colony. Pollen grains of
flowers that were transferred to another flowers help in fertilization and in producing fruits of
the guava tree. Their interaction provides human honey and guava fruit.
Picture B (Commensalism)
1. The tree provides home for the fern.
2. The tree was not harmed or affected by the fern attached to its branch.
3. The tree provides home for the ferns. Ferns beautify our garden.
Picture C (Predation)
1. The frog is benefitted, while the insect is badly harmed. Frogs always feed on insects.
2. The population of the insects will decrease.
3. predation

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Picture D (Parasitism)

1. parasitism
2. mosquito
6. The man bitten by the mosquito will feel itchiness and may cause dengue fever.
Picture E (Competition)
1. competition
2. The flowering plant did not grow well.
3. The plants compete for water, sunlight and minerals from the soil.
What is it
1. a) Mutualism b) competition
c)parasitism d) commensalism
2. The two interacting organisms are both harmed and get less resources.
What’s More (Answers may Vary)
Relationships Organisms Involved

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1. Mutualism Dog and man
2. Commensalism Tree and orchid
3. Predation Horse and grass
4. Commensalism Cow and egret
5. Competition Egret and egret
What I have Learned
1. Mutualism 2. parasitism 3. competition
4. predation 5. commensalism
What I can Do
1. Elephants are harmed or badly affected in the fight which may cause death of other
elephants.
2. This interaction helps the barnacle to move with the whale to get its food.
3. Pine beetles may harm or cause death of the pine tree.
4. This is a beneficial interaction for both fungus and algae. The fungus gets food from the algae
and the algae gets a place to live in.
5. Pitcher plants have foods for survival but this will decrease the number of insects present in
the area.
Post Assessment
A. 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. E 5. A
B. 1. C 2. B 3. B 4. B 5. B

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 Additional Activities

Cut and Paste!

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