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Science 10 (Week 8)
APRIL 4-8, 2022
Learning Competencies:
1. Suggest ways to minimize human impact on the environment
2. Explain the relationship between population growth and carrying capacity

MONDAY
Learning Task 1:
Directions: Read the concepts about ‘How do Humans Impact the Environment?’. Answer the
questions after.
Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels,
and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and not
potable water. These negative impacts can affect human behavior and can prompt mass migrations or
battles over clean water. The expansion of human population and the requirements of our growing human
family place strenuous demands on our environment. Through human intervention, we have altered our
ecosystem forever. However, though some of these changes may be negative, humans also have the power
to correct our mistakes and change our environment for the better.

HUMAN POPULATION BOMB

Human overpopulation has been a concern for scientists since at least 1798, when Thomas Malthus
first published his finding that, without significant and ongoing technological innovation, the human
population would almost certainly outstrip the planet’s food supply. In 1968, this concern was again raised in
Stanford professor R. Paul Ehrlich’s book “The Population Bomb.”
Accommodating population growth has been a root cause for much of the impact we’ve had on
our environment. Since Malthus first noted his grave concerns, technological advances have created a new
double-edged sword: health and abundance. Our food supply today can support more lives than ever, and
advances in medical science have led to increasingly longer lifespans. But this reality has the profound side
effect of reducing population turnover and leading to its rapid expansion.

AGRICULTURE, DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND GENETIC MODIFICATION

The demand to feed a growing human population has facilitated notable advances in agriculture,
which was the first major human innovation to enable our survival as species. Early agriculture allowed hunter-
gatherer cultures to settle in an area and cultivate their own food. This immediately impacted the
environment by transplanting non-native species to new areas, and by prioritizing the cultivation of certain
plants and animals over others. More recently, advances in genetic modification have raised concerns about
the environmental impact of newly developed crops.
DEFORESTATION AND REFORESTATION
Growing populations must be housed, which means they seek more space to build homes and cities.
This often involves clearing forests to make room for urban and suburban development, as well as to provide
building materials. Currently, it is estimated that 18 million acres of trees are clear-cut every year to create
space for development and to be used in wood products.
Deforestation has many effects, including decreasing oxygen levels (and increasing greenhouse
gases), elevated risk of soil erosion and the destruction of animal habitats. But as is the case with industrial
agriculture, some groups have endeavored to create a positive counter-impact to deforestation’s
detrimental effects on the environment. Reforestation efforts seek to replace as much forest land as possible
Deforestation Source: http://www.google.com
every year, and it is currently estimated that about 40 percent of the trees removed each year are being
replaced.
POLLUTION
Human activities affect the environment by contributing to air pollution, or the emission of harmful
substances into the air. While it can be difficult to understand which pollutants are associated with specific
effects on the environment or public health, it is generally accepted that air pollution can indeed cause
public health problems and also harm plant and animal life.
GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Among the most critically impactful ways that humans have affected the earth is our extraction and
consumption of fossil fuels and their attendant CO2 emissions. Recent studies indicate that CO2 emissions
contribute to the deterioration of the earth’s ozone layer, which may, in turn, contribute to global climate
change; this is especially true when emissions are combined with the loss of the carbon sink effect of forest
lands (due to deforestation) and existing particulate matter in the air.
Guide Questions:
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1. What kind of environment do you imagine in our future?
2. How do human activities impact the environment in terms of population?
3. Is there a positive impact of human activities to the environment? Give one.
4. What is the human population bomb?
TUESDAY
Learning Task 2:
Directions: ACT IT OUT: If you will become the Secretary of Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) and upon knowing the impact of human to the environment, make a 1-year plan
on how to combat/lessen this negative impact to the environment. (draw the table on your paper)
WORK PLAN

Strategies Persons Involved Time frame Success Indicator

Objectives

WEDNESDAY
Learning Task 3:
Directions: Analyze the given area. identify and describe each limiting factors. Write only letter for
your answer and write your answer on sheet of paper.

A.

1. How does the four gardens differ of factors needed by the plants?
A. Good weather condition C. Supply of sunlight
B. Water and Fertile soil D. Space of garden
2. How does the LEAST factors affect the population growth of the plants in the garden?
A. Decreases the population C. Increases population
B. Population growth decline D. Both A and B
B.

3. How does the fishes survive inside the aquarium? What factor is given in the sample aquarium?
A. Food B. Water C. Space D. Sunlight
4. How does the four aquarium differ?
A. Aquarium 1 fishes has enough food to survive, while aquarium 2,3 and 4 has limited food supply
B. Aquarium 2 fishes has enough food to survive, while aquarium 1,3 and 4 has limited food supply
C. Aquarium 3 fishes has enough food to survive, while aquarium 1, 2 and 4 has limited food supply
D. Aquarium 4 fishes has enough food to survive, while aquarium 1, 2 and 3 has limited food supply
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Learning Task 4
Directions: Analyze
the graph of
population growth
and describe how
are they different
from each other 2.
Explore how
population growth
is affected with
different factors.

1. Which description is match with Graph?

A. Graph 1 is match with description A, while graph 2 is match with description B
B. Graph 2 is match with description A, while graph 1 is match with description B
2. Which graph has a population resulting in a J shaped curved?
A. Graph 1 B. Graph 2
3. What kind of population growth when resources are unlimited?
A. Logistic Growth B. Exponential Growth
4. How will you describe Logistic growth?
A. Available and plenty of resources for all organisms in a given environment
B. More births are recorded than deaths among organisms in a certain environment
C. Organism in the environment has unlimited resources
D. Resources are limited and scarce for organism and carrying capacity of the environment is
reached.
5. Why does population exhibit logistic growth?
A. population growth become slower due to limited resources
B. population growth increases due to unlimited resources
THURSDAY
Learning Task 5:
Directions: Use the knowledge you gained from the previous reading and activities to answer the
following situational questions.

Situation A
COVID 19 – Over 254
thousand OFWS flown home
amid pandemic.
Situation B
COVID 19: updates October
18,2020
Total cases: 354 thousand
Recovered: 295 thousand
Deaths: 6,603
Situation C
Taal volcano erupted on the
afternoon of January 12,
2020, 43 years after its
previous eruption in 1997.
Philippines

Situation D Situation E Situation F

Philippines Floods: latest
news, heavy rain deepened
flood misery in farming and
mountainous regions of the
northern Philippines.
Oct 17,2020 Cebu city floods
blamed on trash, clogged
waterways.
Over 800 people were
displaced by flooding in the
province of Cebu in the
region of central Visayas,
Philippines after heavy rain
on Oct. 4 2020

Philippines
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1. What factor have direct effect to the population growth for Situation A?
A. Predation C. Competition
B. Emigration D. Disease/ parasites
2. Which situation has a direct effect to the population growth of Emigration?
A. Situation A and B C. Situation F and B
B. Situation A and F D. Situation E and C
3. Which among the situation has similar limiting factors of population growth?
A. Situation A, B and C C. Situation C, D and E
B. Situation D, E and F D. Situation A , D and F
4. What kind of limiting factors are natural disasters, temperature, sunlight and human activities?
A. Density- Independent limiting factor C. Density- Dependent limiting factor
B. Density limiting factor D. Dependent limiting factor
5. Which of the following are natural disasters?
A. Tropical cyclones, sunlight, temperature and fires
B. Floods, Earthquakes, Fires, and tropical cyclones
C. Temperature, floods, fires and sunlight
D. Sunlight, Fires, floods and temperatures

FRIDAY – completion of tasks