PORTFOLIO

IN

NSCI 111
West Visayas State University
Lambunao, Campus

Group Members:

PRINCESS GRATE
DAILYN HORADA
PRINCES ZALDIVIA
1. What do you think is more responsible for pollution, individual people or the
government? Individual people

2. What energy is used by the ecosystem’s autotrophic, or self-sustaining organism?

Energy from sunlight

3. What measures the frequency of occurrence of death in a defined population

during a specified interval? Death rate

4. The phenomenon of climate change characterized by a general increase in average

temperatures of the earth is Global Warming

5. The law that protects and preserve the environment is the Environmental law

6. Organisms that can manufacture the organic compounds they use as a source of
energy and nutrients are Producers

7. Forest that is carefully managed so that as trees are felled, they are replaced with
seedlings that eventually grow into mature trees is Sustainable forest

8. Decrease in biodiversity within a species, an ecosystem, a given geographic area is

Biodiversity loss

9. Earth’s atmosphere is divided into five major layers. The layers are based on
Temperature

10. Term used to define the number of babies born every year per 1000 people in a
population is Birth Rate

WHERE CAN WE LIVE?

Water 70% - BLUE
Desert 6%
Too cold 6%
Mountains 5%
Cannot grow food 5%
Perfect for people 3%

Total 100%

Your task: Imagine the large square above is our earth and each little square
represents 1% of the surface of the earth. Using the information given, color the
squares to indicate how much of the world is habitable.

ANALYSIS
1. What impact could improve health and nutrition have on birth rates?

High rates of infant and childhood and deaths and short life spans put a limit on
population growth in the past. However, improvements in nutrition, water,
medical care, and other technological advances have contributed to a sharp
decline in deaths while births continue to increase, resulting in population growth.

2. Do you think that we are currently at our maximum food output, or are we
capable of growing more food than we do today?

I think we are not currently at our maximum food output. Farmers produces
enough food to feed billions of people but despite this excess, hunger still exist.
There are some parts of places\ that they don’t have enough food to conquer their
needs. As a population grows means that it’s a huge amount of food we need to
grow.

3. What impact do you think global communication has on our population and
resource use?

Global communication plays an important part in our everyday life, it has become
easier and more accessible, since it helps to provide information in our social and
environmental world. In our globalized world now, we can instantly communicate
with our friends, relatives, and colleagues. It has benefit to increase business
opportunities and improving cultural education.

APPLICATION

1. Dispersal Is a vital life history strategy that has

 implications for gene flow, resource
competition, population dynamics, and
species distributions.
2. Birth rate frequency of live births in a given
populations, conventionally calculated
as the annual number of live births per
1,000 inhabitants.
3. Population density Is the average number of people living
per square mile/km.
4. Community refers to the number of people living in
a particular area, from a village to the
world as a whole.
5. Death rate Is the term used to define the number
of deaths every year per 1000 people in
a population.

ASSESSMENT

Group task

Construct a Human Population Growth and Distribution chart using any indigenous
materials. Group yourselves into five and present. You must be able to gather,
organize and interpret. There will be rubrics for scoring. Each group must choose
data below.

1. Philippines: Age Structure 2009-2019

2. Philippines: Density 2009-2019
3. Philippines: Dispersal 2009-2019
4. Philippines: Birth Rate 2009-2019
5. Philippines: Death Rate 2009-2019

PHILIPPINES – HISTORICAL BIRTH RATE DATA

YEAR BIRTH
RATE
2019 20.377
2018 20.576
2017 21.280
2016 21.984
2015 22.688
2014 23.392
2013 24.096
2012 24.451
2011 24.805
2010 25.160
2009 25.514

UNIT II

Activity:
Word hunt: Find and circle the words in the grid, running in one of eight possible
directions horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and including backwards.

V E B Z V C A R N I V O R E T T X
I C P S M E Q U Y F N N R B H M L
A N H A B I T A T G R V J Y S F H
T D O F V I E C O S Y S T E M E E
C K T I K J T I R M I M C N L X R
L Y O A L T K M G U Z S H V S T B
C R S E P R E D A T O R V I S O E
F J Y X Q J K O N W W S C R Y A V
D K N H B O U V I D S Y X O K A O
H B T R R W P M S B A S X N K E R
L A H R E W R O M I U D J M R W E
I O E D E R O A Y D H E K E T C A
V Q S B Z K D U R U U C R N B O F
I D I I B U U L H F S O B T U M D
N K S E G K C O N S U M E R O M R
G L K K B N E D L P Z P C O K U K
J T A R H O R D X O B O D N S N H
W S W J K V S P Y Y R S J L M I A
W K T X S M I R P U J E H X I T X
K O M N I V O R E Q A R Q H H Y G
H P K V I M Z E Q D X I X M J Q Z
F C X F O O N B A L A N C E X V A

Analysis:
Producers, Consumers and Decomposers
CAN YOU PICK THEM OUT?
Look carefully at the pictures. In the box next to each of them, put a “P” if it is a
PRODUCER, a “C” if it is a CONSUMER, or a “D” if it is a D

FRUIT TREE

SUN

LEOPARD
 C

HAWK

D
D

MUSHROOMS

D
D

EARTHWORMS

FLOWER
 C

RABBIT

SWEET CORN

ANTS
You should have one box left over! Put an “S” in it. It is the source of energy for the
producers.

APPLICATION

DIRECTION: Define each of the following terms

TERM DEFINITION
Ecosystem an ecosystem is a community of living organisms
interacting with each other and their nonliving
 environment.
Food chain A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the
next as a source of food.
Water cycle The cycle of process by which water circulates between
the earth’s ocean, atmosphere, and land involving
precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and
rivers and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and
transpiration.
Food web A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains
and a graphical representation of what eats what in an
ecological community.
Sulfur cycle Is a biogeochemical cycle in which the sulfur moves
between rocks, water ways and living systems.
Nitrogen cycle Is a biogeochemical cycle by which nitrogen is converted
into multiple chemical forms as it circulates among
atmospheric, terrestrial, and marine ecosystems.
Phosphorous cycle Is a biogeochemical cycle that describes the movement of
phosphorous through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and
biosphere.
Carbon cycle The carbon cycle is nature’s way of reusing carbon atoms,
which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the
earth and then back into the atmosphere repeatedly.
Biosphere The biosphere is made up of the parts of each where life
exist.
Atmosphere An atmosphere is a layer of gas or layers of gasses that
envelope a planet and is held in the place by the gravity of
the planetary body.
Hydrosphere A hydrosphere is the total amount of water on a planet.
Geosphere The solid portion of earth that include the interior
structure, rocks and minerals, landforms, down to the
deep depths of the core, and the process that shape
earth’s surface.
Producer A producer is an organism which produces its own food
through photosynthesis.
Consumer Consumers are organisms that feeds on plants or other
animals for energy.

Assessment

Directions: Choose the correct answer. Encircle the letter of the correct
answer.
A 1. Which food chain correctly describes the flow of energy in an ecosystem?
A. Grass-->cow-->human
B. Caterpillar-->leaf-->human
C. Cow-->grass-->human
D. Leaf-->bird-->caterpillar

A 2. How do decomposers help other organisms in an ecosystem?

A. They break down dead organisms and add nutrients back to the soil that
plants
use.
B. They use the sunlight to make their own food that other organisms eat for
energy.
C. They help disperse seeds for plant growth.
D. Decomposers do not help other organisms in an ecosystem.

B 3. _____________ makes its own energy and begins the food chain. A. consumer
B. producer
C. herbivore
D. decomposer

A 4. Which of the following lists only consumers?

A. Hawks, lizards, chipmunks
B. Acorns, squirrels, rabbits
C. Grass, chipmunks, eagles
D. Mice, squirrels, grass

B 5. When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters
the_________________ as carbon dioxide. A. Water
B. Atmosphere
C. Sun
D. Air

A6. The conversion of Ammonia (NH3) to Nitrate (NO2) and then to Nitrates
(NO3) is
called__________________________________. A. Nitrification
B. Ammonification
C. Assimilation
D. Detrinification

B 7. Which of these is NOT a parasite?

A. Tick
B. Mosquito
C. Earthworm
D. Flea

A 8. What is the role of decomposers?

A. To return nutrients to the soil
B. To hunt small animals
C. To grow on a host organism
D. To only eat producers

D 9. A producer in this food web is the_____________________ A. Deer

B. Grasshopper
C. Rabbit
D. Tree

A 10. The hawk in this food web is a

A. Predator
B. Prey
C. Producer
D. Herbivore

9. A producer in this food web is the_____________________ A. Deer

B. Grasshopper
C. Rabbit
D. Tree
10. The hawk in this food web is a
A. Predator
B. Prey
C. Producer
D. Herbivore