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Science
Quarter 1 – Module 8
Ecosystem: Life Energy
Science – Grade 9
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 8: Ecosystem: Life Energy
First Edition, 2020

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Science
Quarter 1 – Module 8
Ecosystem: Life
Energy

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Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Science 9 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on

Ecosystem: Life Energy!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by

educators both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher
or facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12
Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and economic
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This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
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Notes to the Teacher

In view to the new normal world we are facing,
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This Science 9 Module for Quarter I is all about
Ecosystem: Life Energy. With this we are trying to
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this module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while
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For the learner:

Welcome to the Science 9 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on

Ecosystem: Life Energy!
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 What I Need to Know

Hi there! Are you ready to explore the majestic and mind-blowing world
of Photosynthesis and Cellular respiration?

Great! We value photosynthesis and cellular respiration because we

needed them to survive and we use them every day from the moment we wake
up to the end of our day.

You will learn that all organisms need energy to sustain life. Your study
will focus on how organisms obtain energy from food and how organisms
produce energy. In order to sustain life, all organisms require energy, but not
all of them can use light energy directly for life activities. To provide the energy
needed by all organisms, plants and other chlorophyll-bearing organisms
capture the energy of the sunlight and convert it into chemical energy stored
in the food. When people and other organisms eat plants, chemical energy
from food is transferred to their bodies.

The module is divided into 2 lessons, namely:

 Lesson 1 – Photosynthesis
 Lesson 2 – Cellular Respiration

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Identify the cell structure and functions of plants involved in the food
making process and cellular respiration.
2. Identify the raw materials needed for photosynthesis.
3. Explain the phases involved in photosynthesis and cellular
respiration.
4. Describe how the materials and energy flow in the ecosystem.
5. Describe the process of food making by plants.
6. Described how stored energy from food is changed to chemical energy
for cell use.

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 What I Know

Directions: Read and analyse each question carefully. Choose the letter of
the correct answer.
1. Plants make food by absorbing water and carbon dioxide. Which of
the following substances is the origin of oxygen released as gas by
green plants during photosynthesis?
a. water c. carbon dioxide
b. sugar d. ribulose-1, 5-biphosphate

2. Oxygen and carbon dioxide are gases that cycle out in the ecosystem.
Which of the following gases is important to photosynthesis?
a. Ozone gas b. water vapor c. oxygen d. carbon dioxide

3. Plants are considered as food makers. In which of the following cell

organelles do photosynthesis occur?
a. ribosome b. Chlorophyll c. chloroplast d. mitochondrion

4. The light-dependent reaction of photosynthesis must come first before

the light independent reaction because its products are important to the
fixation of carbon dioxide. Which of the following is/are the products of
the light-dependent reaction?
a. ADP only b. NADPH only c. ATP only d. both b and c

5. Plants are very unique among other organisms due to their capacity to
trap sunlight and make their own food. Which of the following enables
plants to trap energy from the sun?
a. epidermis b. chloroplast c. cuticle d. chlorophyll

6. All organisms get energy from the food to perform different life processes.
This is done in the cells by breaking down sugar molecules into chemical
energy. Which of the following cell organelles is associated with the
production of chemical energy?
a. chloroplast b. mitochondrion
c. endoplasmic reticulum d. nucleus

7. Pyruvate is the product of glycolysis. If there is no oxygen available to

cells of the human body, what becomes of pyruvate?

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 a. Alcohol b. Lactic acid c. CO2 d. both a and c

8. If you did not eat for three days, where would your cell get the glucose for
ATP production?
a. blood sugar c. glycogen present in the muscle
b. Glycogen in the liver d. protein in the blood

9. How many molecules of carbon dioxide is/are released from one pyruvic
acid molecule being oxidized?
a.1 b. 3 c. 2 d. 4

10. During the synthesis of ATP, what is the difference in hydrogen flow?
a. From matrix to inter membrane space
b. From inter membrane space to matrix
c. From matrix of mitochondria to cytoplasm
d. From cytoplasm to matrix of mitochondrion

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 Lesson

1 Photosynthesis

What’s In

Activity 1: Scrambled Letters

Directions: Arrange the jumbled letters to form the magic word and write it
inside the second row. Also, write its meaning based on your understanding
in your answer sheets.

T T H N H I S E S Y P O O S

What’s New

Directions: Cite some similarities of illustrations shown in figure 1. Write

your answer in your answer sheets.

Figure 1. Leaf cross section.

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 What is It

Plants are great food providers. Why do you think they are called great
food providers? As you go through the activities in this module, you will
understand how plants provide food and help to make the flow of energy in
the ecosystem possible. Photosynthesis is a process of food making done by
plants and other autotrophic organisms. The presence of chlorophyll enables
these organisms to make their own food. Autotrophic organisms require light
energy, carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) to make food (sugar).

In plants, photosynthesis primarily takes place in the leaves and little

or none in stems depending on the presence of chlorophyll. The typical parts
of the leaves include the upper and lower epidermis, mesophyll spongy layer,
vascular bundles and stomata. The upper and lower epidermises protect the
leaves and have nothing to do with photosynthetic processes. Mesophyll has
the most number of chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll. They are important
in trapping light energy from the sun. Vascular bundles – phloem and xylem
serve as transporting vessels of manufactured food and water. Carbon dioxide
and oxygen were collected in the spongy layer and enter and exit the leaf
through the stomata.

The parts of a chloroplast include the outer and inner membranes,

intermembrane space, stroma and thylakoids stacked in grana. The
chlorophyll is built into the membranes of the thylakoids. Chlorophyll
absorbs white light but it looks green because white light is consisted of
three primary colors: red, blue and green. Only red and blue lights are
absorbed thus making these colors unavailable to be seen by our eyes while
the green light is reflected which makes the chlorophyll looks green.
However, it is the energy from red light and blue light that is absorbed and
will be used in photosynthesis. The green light that we can see is not
absorbed by the plant and thus, cannot be used in photosynthesis.

There are two stages of photosynthesis: (a) Light-dependent Reaction

and (b) Calvin Cycle (dark reaction). Light-dependent reaction happens in
the presence of light. It occurs in the thylakoid membrane and converts light
energy to chemical energy. Water-one raw of photosynthesis-is utilized during
this stage and facilitates the formation of free electrons and oxygen. The
energy harvested during this stage is stored in the form of ATP (Adenosine

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Triphosphate) and NADPH (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate
Hydrogen). These products will be needed in the next stage to complete
photosynthetic process.

Calvin Cycle (dark reaction) is a light-independent phase that takes

place in the stroma and converts carbon dioxide (CO 2) into sugar. This stage
does not directly need light but needs the products of light reaction. This is
why it occurs immediately after the light–dependent phase.

The chemical reaction for photosynthesis is:

What are the plant structures that enable a plant to make food? Try the
activities that follow to find out.

What’s More

Activity 2: What are the structures involved in the food making process
in plants?

Learning Station 1: Plant Structure for Photosynthesis

Label the parts of a chloroplast and the internal structure of a leaf.

Write your answer in your answer sheet.

A. Internal structure of a leaf

1.
2.

3.
4.

5.
6.

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B. Chloroplast

1.

4.
2.

5.

3.

Learning Station 2: Raw Materials and End Products of Photosynthesis

Data Completion
Write the raw materials and end products of photosynthesis.

Raw Materials End Products

Activity 3: Investigating Leaf Stomata

Stomata

Figure 2. Leaf Stomata

Based on the figure above, what do you think is the main function of stomata?

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Activity 4

Fill in the blanks. Choose the correct answer form the box provided to supply
the missing word/s.

Photosynthesis Leaves guard cells gas

Stomata are tiny openings or pores in plant tissue that allow 1.)
exchange. They are typically found in plant 2.) but can also be
found in some stems. Specialized cells known as 3.) ,
surround stomata and function to open and close pores. Stomata allow plant
to take in carbon dioxide which is needed for 4.) . They
also help to reduce water loss by closing when conditions are hot or dry.

Activity 5

Instructions: Read the article below. Based on the article, write two to three
statements about how cutting of trees and burning of garbage affect the
production of CO2.

Tropical forest trees, like all green plants, take in carbon dioxide
and release oxygen during photosynthesis. Plants also carry out the
opposite process- known as respiration- in which they emit carbon
dioxide, but generally in smaller amounts than they take in during
photosynthesis. The surplus carbon is stored in the plant helping it to
grow.
When trees are cut down and burned or allowed to rot, their stored
carbon is released into the air as carbon dioxide. And this is how
deforestation and forest degradation contribute to global warming.
According to the best current estimate, deforestation is responsible for
about 10 percent of all global warming emissions.

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Activity 6: Role of Carbon Dioxide in Photosynthesis

https://www.qsstudy.com/biology/significance-photosynthesis-process- animal-

https://www.actforlibraries.org/the-process-and-significance-of- photosynthesis/

From the pictures shown above, answer the questions that follow:

1. Describe the role of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the process of photosynthesis.

2. Cite the uses of carbon dioxide and its bad effects to human health.

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 What I Have Learned

Directions: In your answer sheet, write at least two to three important things
you have learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do

Directions: Nowadays, ornamental plant gardening is so trendy. If you are a

plantita/plantito, how will you ensure that your plants will grow well knowing
that it is inside the house? What are the factors you might consider? Write
your answer in your answer sheet.

Assessment

Directions: Read and analyse each question carefully. Choose the letter of
the correct answer.

1. In which organisms does photosynthesis happen?

a. Plants c. Plants and animals
b. Animals d. none of the above

2. What are the three materials do plants need for the process of
photosynthesis?
a. Water, soil and oxygen c. Sunlight, carbon dioxide and water
b. Sunlight, oxygen and sugar d. Sunlight, soil and water

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3. What do you call the pigment that absorbs energy from the sunlight?
a. Carbon dioxide c. Chlorophyll
b. Hydrogen d. DNA

4. What is the name of the chemical where the energy is stored during
the first phase of photosynthesis?
a. ATP c. Chlorophyll
b. Carbon dioxide d. Oxygen

5. What are the products of photosynthesis?

a. Water and carbon dioxide c. Glucose and oxygen
b. Glucose and water d. Oxygen and water

6. What is the correct equation of photosynthesis?

a. CO2 + H2O Chlorophyll

C6H12O6 + O2
Sunlight

b. CO2 + C6H12O6 Chlorophyll

O2 + H2O
Sunlight

c. CO2 Chlorophyll
O2 + H2O
Sunlight

d. CO2 + C6H12O6 Chlorophyll

H 2O
Sunlight

7. In what organelle of a plant cell does photosynthesis take place?

a. Nucleus c. Mitochondria
b. Chloroplast d. Cytoplasm

8. The tiny openings on the underside of the leaf that help the plant take
in carbon dioxide are called .
a. Stomata c. Phloem
b. Xylem d. Chlorophyll

9. What do plants release during the process of photosynthesis?

a. Carbon dioxide c. Oxygen
b. Hydrogen d. Nitrogen

10. Which type of energy transformation occurs in photosynthesis?

a. Heat to electrical c. Mechanical to electrical
b. Light to chemical d. Chemical to mechanical

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 Additional Activities

Directions: List three (3) ways on how human can help the process of
photosynthesis.

Lesson

2 Cellular Respiration

What’s In

Based on this equation, Carbon dioxide (CO₂), water (H₂O) and light
energy from the sun are the raw materials needed by the plant in order to
make its own food and the process occurs at the chlorophyll of the leaf
(Carbon dioxide from the environment enters the smallest opening in the
plant’s leaf called stomata, water through the roots and up to the leaf , and
light energy from the sun through solar collectors found in the leaf; these
three raw materials will meet at the chlorophyll and the process of
photosynthesis will start).

On the other side of the equation are the products of the process,
when all the raw materials are already used by the plant. Carbohydrate or
simple sugar glucose (C₆H₁₂O₆) and oxygen gas are made as by products
(they came from the splitting of hydrogen bond of water); ATP energy is also
produced during the process. This entire process of plant continuously
occurs to give support to the majority of different organism, including us,
humans.

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 This week, we will provide you another exciting lesson that will help you
understand how energy (in the form of carbohydrates) produced by plants
through photosynthesis is being used.

What’s New

Activity 1
Directions: Study the pictures below. Read the questions carefully and write
your answer in your answer sheet.

1. Can you guess how these pictures are related in your lesson today?

2. Can these be a source of energy?

3. Which one of these have you tasted already?

Activity 2: Picture Analysis

Directions: Analyze the pictures below. Answer the following questions.
Write your answers in your answer sheet.

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1. Are these pictures related to one another?
2. In what way are they related?

What is It

Cellular Respiration

 The process of cell catabolism in which cells turn food into usable
energy in the form of ATP.
 In this process glucose is broken down in the presence of molecular
oxygen into six molecules of carbon dioxide, much of the energy
released is preserved by turning ADP and free phosphate into ATP.

 ATP Gun
 Adenosine Tri-Phosphate (ATP)
 Adenosine
 Ribose Sugar
 3 Phosphates

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Activity 3
Directions: Read the questions carefully and write your answer in your
answer sheet.

1. Where do our cells get energy?

2. What type of macromolecule are 6-Carbon (glucose) sugars?

What’s More

Cellular Respiration (3 stages)

 Glycolysis
 Krebs Cycle (Citric
Acid Cycle)
 Electron Transport
Chain (ETC)

Activity 4
Directions: Based on illustration above, write a brief explanation about the
processes involve in Cellular respiration.

The first step in Cellular Respiration

Glycolysis
Study the step-by-step process of Glycolysis
Glycolysis
Stage 1 - is a series of
anaerobic reactions in
which glucose (a 6-
carbon molecule) is split
into two molecules of
lactate (a 3-carbon
molecule) producing a net
gain of two ATP
molecules, in a series of
aerobic reactions, lactate
is converted to pyruvate,
which enters the
mitochondrion and
combines with oxygen to
form acetyl group.
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 Glycolysis means “splitting sugar” which occurs in the cytoplasm of
the cell. Plants produce their own source of glucose while animals get it from
the food they eat.

Summary
 Where Cytoplasm
 No O2 required
 Energy Yield net gain of 2 ATPs at the expense of 2 ATPs
 6-C glucose  two 3-Carbon sugar/ two pyruvic acid
 Free e- and H+ combine with organic ion carriers called NAD+ 
NADH + H+

Activity 5: Let us check your learning.

Directions: Read and answer the following questions below. Write your
answer in your answer sheet.
1. Where does glycolysis take place?
2. Does glycolysis yield energy?
3. Breaks glucose into
4. What are the raw materials needed in glycolysis reaction?

Stage 2: Citric Acid Cycle (Krebs Cycle)

 Where Mitochondrial matrix

 Energy Yield 2 ATP and more electron e-
 Acetyl-CoA (2-C) combines with 4-C to form 6-C CITRIC ACID
 Citric Acid (6-C) changed to 5-C then to a 4-C
 Gives off a CO2 molecule
 NAD+ and FAD pick up the released e-1
 FAD becomes FADH2
 NAD+ becomes NADH + H+

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 Cycle ALWAYS reforming a 4-C molecule

In the citric acid cycle, the acetyl group from acetyl CoA is attached
from four-carbon oxaloacetate molecule to form a six-carbon citrate molecule.
Through a series of steps, citrate is oxidized, releasing two carbon dioxide
molecules for each acetyl group fed into the cycle.

Before the Krebs cycle begins, pyruvate acid, which has three carbon
atoms, is split apart and combined with an enzyme known as CoA, which
stands for coenzyme A. The product of this reaction is a two-carbon
molecule called Acetyl-CoA. The third carbon from pyruvic acid combines
with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, which is released as a waste product.
High energy electrons are also released and captured in NADH.

After glycolysis breaks glucose into smaller 3- carbon molecules, KC

transfers the energy from these molecules to electron carriers, which will be
used in the electron transport chain to produce ATP.

ATP production is an important part of cellular respiration (the process

of generating energy from food). Both NADH and FADH₂ are involved in this
process, they help make more ATP.
NADH (Nicotinamide Adenine dinucleutide + Hydrogen) and FADH₂
(Flavin Adenine dinucleutide) act as electron carriers and give away their
electrons to the electron transport chain which is the final stage of
respiration.

NADH is a crucial coenzyme in making ATP. It exists in two forms in a

cell: NAD+ and NADH. The first form, NAD+, is called the oxidized form.
When a molecule is in an oxidized state, it means it can accept electrons, tiny
negatively charged particles from another molecule. After it gets electrons, it
has a negative charge, so it also picks up a hydrogen atom from the
surrounding environment, since hydrogen atoms are positively charged. At
such state, it has already reduced its form, NADH. At various chemical
reactions, NAD+ picks up an electron from glucose, at which point it
becomes NADH. Then NADH, along with another molecule Flavin Adenine
dinucleutide (FADH₂) will transport the electrons to the mitochondria
where the cell can harvest energy stored in the electron.

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Electron Transport Chain (ETC)

Summary
 Where inner membrane of mitochondria
 Energy Yield Total of 32 ATP
 O2 combines with Two H+ to form H2O
 Exhale - CO2, H2O comes from cellular respiration

Activity 6

1. How many ATP is produced

during Glycolysis?

2. How many ATP is produced

during Krebs cycle?

3. How many ATP is produced

during ETC?

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Activity 7

Inner membrane Outer membrane

Cristae Matrix

Directions: Read each function of internal structure of mitochondrion and

try to answer by choosing answers found inside the box.
1. Contains a variety of enzymes. It contains ATP synthase
which generates ATP in the matrix, and transports
proteins that regulate the movement of metabolites into
and out of the matrix.
2. Contains proteins known as porins, which allow
movement of ions into and out of the mitochondrion.
3. Found in the inner membrane that functions in the
increase of surface area available for energy production
via oxidative phosphorylation.
4. It is the space within the inner membrane of the
mitochondrion, which contains the enzymes of the
Krebs (TCA) and fatty acids cycles?

What I Have Learned

Activity 8: Comparing Photosynthesis and Respiration

There is recycling of materials through the chloroplast and mitochondrion.
Study the diagram below.

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Table 2. Comparing Photosynthesis and Respiration

Basis of Comparison Photosynthesis Respiration

Cell structure involved 1. 2.
Starting materials/ raw materials 3. 4.
End Product 5. 6.
Energy requirement 7. 8.

Materials are recycled through the processes of photosynthesis in the

chloroplast and respiration in the mitochondrion. However, the flow of energy
is one-way.

What I Can Do

Performance Task:
Now, you have understood how energy from the sun is captured and
converted to life energy. This time, you will try to provide possible solutions
to a community problem or issue on food production. Most communities in
urban areas depend mostly on the supply of crops from rural areas. What
you need to do is to provide urban communities with insights on how they
can build small urban gardens in their homes. You will apply what you have
learned in photosynthesis.

Based on the knowledge learned from the module on photosynthesis

and cellular respiration, you will make a certain material in a form of
brochure made of recyclable/ indigenous materials that includes tips and
information in urban gardening.

A sample of a brochure:

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Here is the rubric to be used in checking the brochure:
Points 5 4 3
 Properly  Unorganized.
 Not properly
organized.  Needs
organized.
 With complete improvement on
Description  Lacks one to
information. creativity.
two information.
 Made with  Incomplete
creativity.  Less creative. information.

Assessment
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Encircle the letter that
correspond to your answer.

1. A farmer is experiencing a problem in growing his crops. Most of the leaves

of the crops are turning yellow. Which of the following will likely result
from the yellowing of the leaves of the crops?
a. It will increase the production of food.
b. It will decrease the production of food.
c. The production of food will remain the same.
d. None of the above.

2. Abby wants to know if leaves are capable of making food during nighttime.
Which of the following experimental design should Abby do to get an
accurate answer to her question?
a. Put one potted plant in a very dark place over night and test for the
presence of starch.
b. Cover the plant with paper bag overnight and test for the presence of
starch.
c. Put one potted plant under the sun and the other in a shaded area for
two hours and test for the presence of starch.
d. Cover one leaf of a potted plant with carbon paper for two hours and
test for the presence of starch.

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3. Which of the following materials are cycled out by the chloroplast and
mitochondrion?
a. Carbon dioxide, water, oxygen, and ATP
b. Carbon dioxide, water, sugar and oxygen
c. Sugar, water, oxygen, and ATP
d. Sugar, water, sunlight, and oxygen

4. What do cells need to breakdown a sugar molecule completely to produce

chemical energy (ATP)?
a. Sugar and oxygen c. Sugar only
b. Sugar and water d. Sugar and carbon dioxide

5. A vegetable farmer wants to increase his harvest. Which of the following

conditions should the farmer consider?
a. The kind of soil only c. The location of the plots only
b. The amount of water only d. All of the above
6. Oxygen is essential in cellular respiration. What is the role of oxygen in
the electron transport chain?
a. It provides a high energy proton. c. It serves as the final acceptor.
b. It releases an electron. d. It forms water

7. What will happen if ATP and NADPH are already used up at night?
a. Less oxygen will be produced.
b. Less carbon dioxide will be used.
c. Glucose production will stop.
d. Water molecule will split to form electrons.

8. Which of the following best explains why planting trees and putting up
urban gardens can help prevent global warming?
a. Plants produce oxygen during day time and perform transpiration.
b. Plants absorb carbon dioxide that contributes to the rising of Earth’s
temperature.
c. Plants perform photosynthesis.
d. Plants use up carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, release oxygen to
the environment, and perform transpiration.

9. Sugarcane juice is used in making table sugar which is extracted from the
stem of the plant. Trace the path of sugar molecules found in the stem
from where they are produced.
a. Root------stem c. flowers ---- leaf-----stem
b. Leaf-------stem d. roots --- leaf------stem

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10. When cells break down food into chemical energy it undergoes three
major processes, glycolysis, Krebs cycle and electron transport. Which
of these processes provides the most number of ATP molecules?
a. Glycolysis c. electron transport chain
b. Krebs cycle d. no idea

11. What do stomata do?

a. Stop carbon dioxide diffusing into leaves.
b. Allow oxygen to diffuse into leaves.
c. Allow carbon dioxide to diffuse into leaves.
d. All of the above

12. What role does O2 play in aerobic respiration?

a. It plays no role.
b. It combines with Acetyl-CoA at the start of the Krebs cycle.
c. It is the final acceptor at the end of the electron transport chain.
d. It is given off as a by-product during oxidation of pyruvate.

13. Which of the following organisms carries out cellular respiration?’

a. a corn plant c. a yeast
b. a dog d. all of the above

14. The final electron acceptor in lactic acid fermentation is:

a. NAD+ c. O₂
b. Pyruvate d. Lactic acid

15. Proteins and fats can be nutritional sources of energy provided

that .
a. they are converted into glucose.
b. enter their own pathways that are separate from the glucose
metabolic pathways.
c. they are degraded completely into atoms before entering a pathway.
d. they are modified so that they can enter the glucose metabolic
pathway.

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 Additional Activities

Directions: Create an acrostic using CELLULAR RESPIRATION based on

What you have learned in this module. Write your answer in your
answer sheet.

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L–
L–
U–
L–
A–
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 Answer Key

Lesson 1

10. A 8. C 6. 4. 2. D may Answers PHOTOSYNTHESIS,

9. C 7. B
5. D
3. C 1. Activity 1
D D A
What I Know What’s In

Station 1B Station 1A
Activity 2
What’s More

(food, glucose)
Students answers may vary.
End Products: Oxygen, Sugar
Activity 5:
Chlorophyll What’s More
Raw Materials: Sunlight, Water, Carbon dioxide,

Station 2: the atmosphere.

Activity 2 increasing amount of Carbon dioxide in
What’s More of destruction of ozone layer caused by
Bad effect- Skin cancer due to the results
2. Uses- food making process
5A. Students answers may vary. materials of photosynthesis.
Activity 3: Carbon dioxide is one of the raw 1.
What’s More Activity 6:
What’s More

Gas, Leaves, Guard cells, Photosynthesis

Activity 4: Answers may vary
What’s More What I have learned

10. B A 5.
9. C 4. Answers may vary
8. A 3.
C What I can do
A
7. 2. C
B 6. 1.
A A sment
Asses

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3. Answers may vary
2. Answers may vary
Yes 2.
Yes 1.
1. Yes
Activity 2
Activity 1
What’s New
What’s New

2. Carbohydrates
Food that we eat
s. transport chain
1. Krebs cycle (Citric Acid cycle) and electron
Activity 3 metabolic pathways including glycolysis,
What is It Cellular respiration is a collection of three
Activity 4
What’s More
and oxygen 6012 H6C 4.
3. 2 3-C sugar (glucose) / 2 pyruvic acid
Yes 2. 32 ATP 3.
1. Cytoplasm 2. 2 ATP
Activity 5 1. 2 ATP
Activity 6
Matrix 4.
3. Cristae 8. ATP
Outer member 2. gy7. Sunlight ener
1. Inner membrane 2
& O 26. CO
Activity 7 2
& 0 2012 H65. C
2
4. Glucose & CO
O2, 23. CO
15. A 10. C 5. MitochondrH ion 2.
14. C 9. D 1. Chloroplast
4.
13. A B
8. A
3.
12. B D7. C B
2. Activity 8
11. D 6. C A
1.
B
Post Test

ATP Light energy Energy requirement

Carbon di oxide and water Sugar and oxygen End Product
materials
Sugar and oxygen er Carbon dioxide and wat Starting materials/ raw
mitochondrion chloroplast Cell structure involved
Respiration Photosynthesis Basis of Comparison

Activity 10
What I have Learned:

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References
Learners Material Grade 9
BIOLOGY, Science and Technology Textbook for Second Year, Reprint Edition,2006,
2009

Websites:
https://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/stomata.html
https://www.microscopeworld.com/p-3384-plant-stomata-under-the-
microscope.aspx
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https://www.pathwayz.org/Tree/Plain/CROSS+SECTION+OF+A+LEAF+55BBASIC
%5D
https://ib.bioninja.com.au/standard-level/topic-2-molecular-biology/29-
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https://www.edrawsoft.com/template-stomata-diagram.php
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world
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https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/tropical-deforestation-and-global-warming
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