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Science
Quarter 2 - Module 6:
Effects of the Environment
on the Life Cycle of Organisms

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Science – Grade 4
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Quarter 2 - Module 6: (Effects of the Environment on the Life Cycle of the Organism)
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Quarter 2 - Module 6:
Effects of the Environment
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What This Module is About

This module takes up the effects of the environment on the life

cycle of organisms. Our environment affects the life of living things.
When there are changes in the environment, the organisms are
directly affected.

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 The effects of the environment on living things may be good or it
may also be bad on the organism.

As you go along with this module, you will be able to describe

the effects of the organisms to the environment.

Notes to the Teacher

Dear Teacher,
This is a self-paced module with various
activities to be done at home by the learners.
Clear and careful instructions must be given
to the learners to ensure safety and avoid
misconceptions in performing the activities.

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What I Need to Know

Living things live in an environment with the following

components: air, water, sunlight, soil, and temperature. These

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components are what we call the abiotic factors. Changes in abiotic
factors will always have an effect on the lives of the living things
growing and living in an ecosystem.

The life of an organism is a cycle. It is a series of changes that

take place in the life of an organism from the beginning of life until the
end. The stages in a life cycle may differ from one kind of organism
to the other.

Changes in the abiotic components in the ecosystem may affect

any of the stages of the organisms.

Learning Objectives:

1. Name the different abiotic components in an ecosystem.

2. Give the importance of abiotic components in an ecosystem to
living things.
3. Describe how living things affect the abiotic components in an
ecosystem.
4. Describe the effects of the environment to the life cycle of
organisms.

How to Learn from this Module

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

• Take your time in 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

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What I Need This part contains learning objectives
to Know that are set for you to learn as you go
along the module.

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 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.

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

What I Know iii

Test A

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Direction: Read the questions carefully. Write the letter of your choice
on your Science Answer Sheet or Science Activity
notebook.

1. What component does air have that is essential for living things to
survive?
A. ammonia C. oxygen
B. nitrogen D. carbon dioxide

2. What makes our air polluted?

A. Cutting of trees in the forests.
B. Use of electric appliances at home.
C. Spraying the farms with pesticides to kill the pests.
D. Burning of gasoline and diesel by vehicles and factories.

3. In what way air pollution affects the plants?

A. Slow down the growth of the plants.
B. Makes plant good for animals to eat.
C. Source of organic fertilizer for the plants.
D. Protects the plants from being eaten by the animals.

4. Which of the following is a pollutant in the air?

A. oxygen C. sulfur dioxide
B. nitrogen D. carbon dioxide

5. Which of the following will NOT be the result of overcrowding?

A. Diseases spread easily.
B. Organisms grow very healthy.
C. Resources will be in limited supply.
D. There is equal sharing of resources.

6. Competition for space results to the following EXCEPT:

A. Lack of food for some organisms.
B. Diseases spreading very fast.
C. Starvation for some animals.
D. Equal sharing of resources.

7. Why is sunlight very important to the ecosystem?

A. It is needed when plants make food.
B. Sunlight makes us see things around.
C. Oxygen is produced when there is sunlight.
D. Makes water become warm.

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8. What vitamin is responsible for the proper development of bones
and teeth, and is released by the body with the help of sunlight?
A. Vit A C. Vit E
B. Vit C D. Vit D

9. Which of the following makes sunlight important for a housewife?

A. Helps dry the palay.
B. Makes the ground dry.
C. Dries the newly washed clothes.
D. Source of energy to make food.

10. Animals like carabaos and goats are examples

of______________.
A. primary consumers C. tertiary consumers
B. secondary consumers D. decomposers

11. Carabaos love to stay in the water because they_____________.

A. love to play in water. C. are thirsty.
B. want to be refreshed. D. are dirty animals.

12. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about water?

A. Help distribute nutrients from food to all parts of the body.
B. Serves as breeding ground for some animals.
C. The earth has more fresh water than salt water.
D. Home for the aquatic plants.

13. Which of the following animals live in water?

A. frog C. bangus
B. snake D. carabao

Test B.

Direction: In the areas with the blank space, place A for abiotic or B
for Biotic to identify what the object is.

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 A farmer cut down 20 trees (14. _____) at the source of a stream
in a forest to make a kaingin. How will this affect the amount of water
(15. _____) of the stream?

Week 6 Day 1
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Lesson Effect of Air on the Life

1 Cycle of Organisms

Living things constantly interact with their environment. Each kind of

environment is made up of biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living things)
components that interact and depend on one another in different
ways.
One of the abiotic components is air. Biotic (living things) components
like human, animals, and plants need air to survive. Air is made up of
essential gases that living things need to endure. These include
oxygen and carbon dioxide..
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What’s In
W What’s In

Let us recall…

Directions: Give 4 examples of animals that undergo complete and

incomplete Metamorphosis. Write your answers in your
Answer Sheets.
Complete Metamorphosis Incomplete Metamorphosis

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 What’s New

Direction: Below is a situation that happens in a city. Analyze the

questions provided in the guide questions below. Write
your answers in your Answer Sheet or Science Activity
notebook.

Figure 1. Black smoke coming out of a factory.

Guide questions:
1. Describe the drawing.
2. Is living in the kind of place seen in the Figure 1 healthy or
harmful to living things?
3. How do you think the situation seen in Figure 1 will affect the
living things living in the area?

What is It

Learning Circuit
 Plants, animals and humans breathe the air around. Breathing
is part of a process called respiration. During respiration living
things take in oxygen from the air and gives out carbon dioxide.
 During photosynthesis,
Air in the atmosphere is plants takeof indifferent
a mixture carbongases
dioxide
thatand
we
release oxygen.
cannot see but we can feel. It is made up of:
9 a. 78 percent nitrogen
b. 21 percent oxygen
c. small amounts of carbon dioxide, neon, and hydrogen
 Guide Questions:

1. What are the common causes of air pollution?

2. How animals are affected by air pollution?

3. In what way plants are affected when air is polluted?

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 What’s more?

Directions: Below is a drawing that shows the interaction between

animals and plants. Analyze the situation and answer the
guide questions below. Write your answers in your
Answer Sheet or Activity notebook.

Figure 2. Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle

Guide Questions:
1. Based on the drawing, where does the cow get the oxygen it
breathes in?
2. Why is the cow important to the tree?
3. Oxygen produced by the tree is reduced by air pollution. How
does low supply of oxygen can affect the cow?

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 What I have learned

Directions. Write T if the statement is true and F if it is false. Write

your answers in your Activity Sheet or Science Activity
notebook.

1. Oxygen makes up the biggest portion of the air in the

atmosphere.

2. Air pollution is only harmful to animals.

3. People are the reason why there is pollution in the air.
4. Acid rain only damage the leaves of the plants and NOT the
ability to produce fruits.
5. The lung is the main organ that will be harmed by air pollution.

What I Can Do

Do You Love Me?

Directions: Below are things humans usually do. Draw a heart ( ) if

the activity involves loving the earth and a broken heart
( ) if the activity does not show love of the earth. Write
answers in your Activity Sheet or Science Activity
notebook

_________1. composting plastic wastes

_________2. burning of leaves
_________3. driving smoke belching vehicles
_________4. riding bicycles
_________5. kaingin farming

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 Answer Key

What I know
Test A 1. C 3. A 5. B 7. A 9. C 11. B 13. C
2. D 4. C 6. D 8. D 10. A 12. C
Test B 14. B 15. A
What’s In (Answers may vary) but may refer with answers below)
Complete Metamorphosis Incomplete Metamorphosis

1. beetles 1. grasshoppers

2.bees 2.cockroaches

3.ants 3.termites

4.butterflies 4.lice

5.mosquitoes 5.praying mantis

What’s New
1. Answer may vary
2. Harmful
3, may cause diseases, etc
What’s More
1. tree
2. The tree gets carbon dioxide from the cow or the cow gives carbon dioxide to the tree.
3. The cow will not get enough supply of oxygen or the cow will have difficulty in breathing.
What I have Learned
1. F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T
What I can Do
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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 Week 6 Day 2
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Lesson
Importance of Space in the
2 Life Cycle of Organisms

Living things need space, not the outer space but actually an
actual space to live and breed. Overcrowding, especially in animals
can result in stress and diseases. Living thins things need enough
space just like humans do.

What’s In

Quick Check!
Directions: Below are statements about air. Write T if the statement is
a true and F if it is false. Write your answers in your
Activity Sheet or Science Activity notebook.

___1. Air pollution is harmful to all living things.

___2. Smog makes breathing difficult.
___3. Living organisms can live even without air.
___4. When oxygen is not available, animals can use nitrogen.
___5. Common pollutants in the air come from the burning of
gasoline, diesel and oils by cars and factories.

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 What’s New

Let’s Examine!
Directions: Write Yes if it shows a good space for a living organism
and No if it shows an overcrowding. Write your answers in
your Answer Sheet or Science Activity notebook.
____1. Two goldfish in a small aquarium.
____2. A corn plant surrounded by grasses.
____3. A dog that can play freely around in the backyard.
____4. Four puppies born to a dog with six nipples.
____5. Five monggo plants growing beside each other.

What is It

Learning Circuit
Plants, animals, and humans need enough living space in
order to survive and multiply. When there are too many
organisms in a given space, overcrowding occurs.
Overpopulation or overcrowding is not good to the health of the
organism. Lack of enough space will result to the following:
1. Lack of food - when there are too many of the same kind of
animal or plants competing for one food
source.
 organisms are not healthy
 many will die of starvation or diseases
2. Wandering – overpopulation results to lack of food. Some
animals will go to other places in search for
food. Outside their habitat, may be harmed
or may harm others.

3. Disease – overcrowding may spread diseases faster.

Guide Questions:
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 1. What resource is lacking if there is overcrowding of space?
2. Why diseases spread fast when there is overcrowding?
3. What makes animals wander to other places when there is
overcrowding?

What’s more?

Directions: Below is a drawing of a young corn plant with weeds

growing around it. Study the drawing and answer the
questions below. Write your answers in your Activity
Sheet or Science Activity notebook

Figure 3. Corn plants growing with weeds.

Guide Questions:
1. Identify at least three resources which the young corn plant
and the weeds will compete for.
2. Give at least two effects to the corn plant which is brought
about by the situation above.
3. What will you do in order to make the resources available to
the corn plant?

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 What I have learned

After this lesson, I learned that __________________________

_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________

What I Can Do

Directions: Below is a situation. Make a decision, making use of

what you learned in this lesson. Write your answers in
your Answer Sheet or Science Activity notebook.

Your father bought a small aquarium so you could have a pet

fish. He gave you money to buy the kind of fish that you like to put in
your aquarium. In the pet store, you saw different kinds of fish that you
really want to have them all. Since your aquarium is small, what
should you do? Should you buy all the fish that you like? If yes, why?
If no, why?

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Answer Key

What’s In
1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T
What’s New
1. No 2. No 3. Yes 4. Yes 5. No
What Is It
1. Food
2. Plants and animals are very near each other/very crowded.
3. To search for food.
What’s More
1. sunlight, water, nutrients, space
2. Corn plant will not grow healthy/well
Corn plant will not produce good ear of corn/fruit.
Corn plant will die,
3. Remove or uproot the weeds.
What I Have Learned
Answer may vary
What I Can Do
No. So that there will be enough space for the fishes to move inside the aquarium.

Week 6 Day 3

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Lesson
Effect of Sunlight on the
3 Life Cycle of Organisms

The sun is the source of all energy, heat and light. The amount
of sunlight available in a place determines what living thing can
survive there. All plants use sunlight to make food in a process call
photosynthesis. They store the food in their leaves and in the fruits.
The energy stored in the plants flows or is transferred to the animals
that eat these plants.

What’s In

Let’s Recall

Direction: Identify three (3) situations which will happen when plants
are planted very near each other and three (3) situations
which may happen if animals are overcrowded in a place.
Write your answers in your Answer Sheet or Science
Activity notebook.

Plants:
1. _______________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________

Animals:
1. _______________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________

What’s New
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Benefits from the Sun
Direction: Fill in the boxes with the benefits you get from the sun.

SUN

What is It

Learning Circuit
The sun is a very important environmental factor in the
ecosystem. All living things depend on the sun in order to
survive. Without the sun, life will not be possible on earth.
The importance of the sun:
1. source of light in the earth
2. source of energy needed by plants to make food
3. source of solar power which converts energy from
sunlight into electricity
4. source of heat to warm the earth
- drying of clothes
- drying of crops
5. gives vitamin D, which is important for the body
6. ultraviolet ray of the sun kills the bacteria
- drying of clothes in the sun
- placing pillows under the heat of the sun
- increased water temperatures work together to
kill harmful bacteria in the water.

The energy from the sun is transferred from plants to

animals when animals eat the plants. Only the right amount of
20 sunlight should be acquired, too much or too little will have a
bad effect.

Plants should not be planted very near each other so the

Guide Questions:
1. How is the sun important to a housewife?
2. Why is the sun important to the farmers?
3. What would happen if the sun stops shinning?

What’s more?

Draw Conclusions.

Direction: Fill in the boxes with things that you learned about how is
sunlight important to Earth?

Fact

Fact

Fact

Conclusion

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 What I have learned

After this lesson, I learned that

sunlight_________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________.

What I Can Do

Direction: Give example of a situation in your community which

shows that energy from the sun is passed to the plant and then to
the animals. Write your answer in your Answer Sheet or
Activity notebook.

SUN plant animal 1 animal 2

______________ __________ ______________

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Answer Key

What’s In
Plants
1. making of food is limited
2. plants do not grow well or not healthy
3. diseases easily spread
Animals
1.Lack of food or starvation
2. Wandering to look for food
3. Diseases easily spread

What’s New
1. source of light
2. source of heat
3. source of energy for plants to manufacture/make food
4. solar power
5. drying clothes
6. drying crops (palay. corn, copra, cacao etc.)
What Is It (Answers may vary)
1. disinfecting materials at home, disinfecting water, disinfecting utensils, etc.
2. drying of crops, growing of crops, etc.
What’s More
Answers may vary
What I have Learned
Answers may vary
What I Can Do (Answer may vary)
Ex. rice plant mice snake

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Lesson Effects of Water on the

4 Life Cycle of Organisms

All living organisms require water for survival. All oxygen-

dependent organisms need water to aid in the respiration process. In
the most basic way, our bodies are made up of about 70% water.
Water is the medium in which all our cell’s biochemical activity occurs.
Water may be consumed by living things or may also be a habitat for
them.

What’s In
W What’s In

JUMBLED WORDS

Direction: Arrange the scrambled letters to form the correct word.

Write these words in your Answer Sheet or Science
Activity notebook.

______________1. (UNS) is the main source of light on Earth.

______________2. (LANPT) absorb energy from the sun to make
food.
______________3. (AROSL Power) sunlight converted to electricity.
______________4. (HLIGTSUN) light from the sun.
______________5. (EHTA) comes from the sun to warm the earth.

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 What’s New

Direction: Complete the graphic organizer on your Answer Sheet or

Science Activity Notebook by answering the question below.

Why is water important?

We use water
for…

What is It

Learning Circuit
Water is very important for survival of living things. Plants need
water when they manufacture food through photosynthesis. The
process where plants transform the energy from the sun into food.

Animals and humans need fresh water for our organs to function.
We get water from drinking it and from our food. Water makes our
bodies absorb vitamins and minerals from the food we eat. It also
helps to regulate our body temperature.

Water also provides a home for water or aquatic plants and

animals. It also provides a breeding ground or temporary home for
animals which spend part of their lives in water like frogs and some
insects.

Humans are the biggest consumers of water on earth. We use

water forOnly 2% of the
drinking, water on
cooking, earth if cleaning.
washing, fresh water Itwhile saltwater
is also used in
makes 97.5%. Protecting our environment
growing food and in producing electricity. is important to keep
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the sources of our water pure. Water conservation means using
our water supply wisely and avoid polluting it.
Guide Questions:
1. How is water important to plants?
2. What are the importance of water to animals?
3. Why do we need to conserve water?

What’s More?

Direction: Take an observation in the community where you live.

Make a prediction on how plants, animals are affected if it
will not rain for one year. Write your answer in your
Answer
Sheet or Science Activity notebook.

Plants

Animals

Humans

What have
What I have learned

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 After this lesson, I learned that water
________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

What I Can Do

Water is essential to all forms of life. List down at least five (5)
ways on how to conserve water at home. Write your answers in your
Answer Sheet or Science Activity notebook.

1. ________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________

Post Assessment

Test A
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Direction: Read the questions carefully. Write the letter of your choice
on your Science Answer Sheet or Science Activity
notebook.

1. What component does air have that is essential for living things to
survive?
A. ammonia C. oxygen
B. nitrogen D. carbon dioxide

2. What makes our air polluted?

A. Cutting of trees in the forests.
B. Use of electric appliances at home.
C. Spraying the farms with pesticides to kill the pests.
D. Burning of gasoline and diesel by vehicles and factories.

3. In what way air pollution affects the plants?

A. Slow down the growth of the plants.
B. Makes plant good for animals to eat.
C. Source of organic fertilizer for the plants.
D. Protects the plants from being eaten by the animals.

4. Which of the following is a pollutant in the air?

A. oxygen C. sulfur dioxide
B. nitrogen D. carbon dioxide

5. Which of the following will NOT be the result of overcrowding?

A. Diseases spread easily.
B. Organisms grow very healthy.
C. Resources will be in limited supply.
D. There is equal sharing of resources.

6. Competition for space results to the following EXCEPT:

A. Lack of food for some organisms.
B. Diseases spreading very fast.
C. Starvation for some animals.
D. Equal sharing of resources.
7. Why is sunlight very important to the ecosystem?
A. It is needed when plants make food.
B. Sunlight makes us see things around.
C. Oxygen is produced when there is sunlight.
D. Makes water become warm.

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8. What vitamin is responsible for the proper development of bones
and teeth, and is released by the body with the help of sunlight.
A. Vit A C. Vit E
B. Vit C D. Vit D

9. Which of the following makes sunlight important for a housewife?

A. Helps dry the palay.
B. Makes the ground dry.
C. Dries the newly washed clothes.
D. Source of energy to make food.

10. Animals like carabaos and goats are examples

of______________.
A. primary consumers C. tertiary consumers
B. secondary consumers D. decomposers

11. Carabaos love to stay in the water because they_____________.

A. love to play in water. C. are thirsty.
B. want to be refreshed. D. are dirty animals.

12. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about water?

A. Help distribute nutrients from food to all parts of the body.
B. Serves as breeding ground for some animals.
C. The earth has more fresh water than salt water.
D. Home for the aquatic plants.

13. Which of the following animals live in water?

A. frog C. bangus
B. snake D. carabao

Test B.

Direction: In the areas with the blank space, place A for abiotic or B
for Biotic to identify what the object is.

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 A farmer cut down 20 trees (14. _____) at the source of a stream
in a forest to make a kaingin. How will this affect the amount of water
(15. _____) of the stream?

Additional Activities

Directions: Identify at least four (4) activities at home that make use
of water. For each activity, give a suggestion on how to
conserve water. Write your answer in the Answer Sheet
or your Science Activity notebook.
Activities at Home
that Uses water Suggestion on How to Conserve Water
1.

2,

3.

4.

Answer Key

What’s In
1. SUN 3. SOLAR 5. HEAT
2. PLANT
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What’s New
Answers may vary
What Is It
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