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Strategic intervention material
Grade 7 – ecosystem

Guide
Card Ecosystem
The Ecosystem is composed of all living things interacting
with one another and with their environment (With the non-living
things). It can be large, such as an ocean, wetland or forest. It
can also be small, like a pond, tree or a rotting log. The word
Ecosystem was coined by the British plant ecologist Sir Arthur
George Tansley to show that a habitat is a system in which its
biotic (Living things) and abiotic (Non-living things)
components constantly interacts

Content Standard
  With this strategic intervention material students will
learn the interaction of organism with each other and with
their environment to survive

Learning Competencies

 Differentiate biotic from abiotic components

 Describe the ecological relationship found in an ecosystem
 Predict the changes in one population on the other
population in the ecosystem
 Predict the effect of changes in abiotic factors in the
ecosystem

Guide
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Main task

 To learn the different kind of interaction in the ecosystem

and to know the difference of the biotic and abiotic
components
 Sub task
Activity 1: Differentiate biotic from abiotic components.

Activity 2: Learn the different kinds of symbiotic and non-

symbiotic

Relationships.

Activity 3: Learn the importance of biotic and abiotic

components in the ecosystem

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Assessment
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1. It is a special type of consumers that feeds on dead plants or
animals.
a. Decomposers b. Omnivore c. Scavenger d.
Carnivore

2. It is a consumer that waits for their prey to die before they feed
on them.

a. Decomposers b. Omnivore c. Scavenger d.

Carnivore

3. Organism within a community which cannot make their own

food and depends on other organism for their foods.

a. Carnivore b. Decomposers c. Consumers d.

Scavenger

4. Shows the sequence of food transfer from one trophic level to

the next.

a. Food web b. Food Chain c. Commensalism d.

Parasitism

5. The transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to plants and

back.

a. Nitrogen cycle b. Oxygen cycle c. Water cycle d. Air

cycle

6. Important material needed by living things to create protein.

a. Oxygen b. Air c. Nitrogen d. Nitric

Acid

7. When two organism interacts and they benefit from each other.

a. Parasitism b. Commensalism c. Mutualism d.

Competition

8. It is the way of plants in creating their own food.

a. Cooking b. Cellular respiration c. Protein synthesis

d. Photosynthesis
 9. It includes river and lakes that are hosts of fishes and plants.

a. Freshwater biomes b. Salt water biomes c. Seascapes

d. Creeks

10. A relationship in which organism compete for a prey.

a. Contest b. Division open c. Fighting d.

Competition

Enrichment
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1.What do you think is the importance of abiotic

component to the biotic component in an
ecosystem?
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2.What is the significance of having a

decomposer in the ecosystem?
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 3.As a student what can you do to help in
maintaining a good ecosystem?
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Reference card
The Ecosystem

Commensalism mutualism parasitism

1. Your classmate did not bring his paper every day and always
ask you for a piece of paper each day.

-Parasitism

2. Your classmate do not have enough money to go home and

since both of your homes are at the same way, you ask him to
join you at your service so that he could go home.

-Commensalism
3. Your brother is having a hard time in his math subject and in
exchange for helping him he will help you also in your drawing
homework.

-Mutualism

4. Sam is a skinny boy and who often gets bullied since he is

small, the bullies always took his lunch and he cannot do
something about it.

-Parasitism

5. The cows are eating the grass to sustain they health, after
eating their feces help the soil to be fertilized.

-Mutualism

6. The Malaysian jumping spider eats mosquitos. By not killing

them they might help in reducing the diseases caused by
mosquitos.

-Mutualism

7. Sally borrowed her friend's comb not knowing she is infected

with lice, after a few days she noticed her hair was very itchy and
found out that there are lots of lice inhabiting in her hair.

-Parasitism
8. Harold's mom packed him with a lot of food today and he
cannot eat it all so instead he let it all spoil he shared it with his
classmates.

-Commensalism

9. A mole digs up 100 meters underground in just 1 night and an

ant used half of it as its shelter.

-Commensalism

10. Tanks on a war defends backup soldiers and troops defends

them from rocket launchers which is their weakness.

-Mutualism

Answer Card

Answers: Assessment Card

1.) B. 2.) C. 3.) C. 4.) B. 5.) A. 6.) C 7.) C. 8.) D 9.) A 10.) D