Science6 Q2 Mod6 EcosystemTropicalRainforestsCoralsReefsandMangroveSwamps V4
Science6 Q2 Mod6 EcosystemTropicalRainforestsCoralsReefsandMangroveSwamps V4
Science6 Q2 Mod6 EcosystemTropicalRainforestsCoralsReefsandMangroveSwamps V4
Science
Quarter 2 – Module 6
Ecosystem: Tropical Rainforests,
Coral Reefs and Mangrove Swamps
CO_Q2_Science6_ Module 6
6
Science
Quarter 2 – Module 6:
Ecosystem: Tropical Rainforests,
Coral Reefs and Mangrove
Swamps
Science – Grade 6
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Quarter 2 – Module 6: Ecosystem: Tropical Rainforests, Coral Reefs and Mangrove
Swamps
First Edition, 2020
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This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the different interactions of living things and non-living things in tropical
rainforests, coral reefs and mangrove swamps. The scope of this module is used in
many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the diverse
vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard
sequence of the course. But the order in which you read them can be changed to
correspond with the textbook you are now using.
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What I Know
Directions: Read each item carefully and choose the letter of the best answer. Write
your answer on your answer sheet.
1. What are the things needed by plants to make their own food?
A. water, chemicals and oxygen
B. oxygen and carbon dioxide
C. oxygen and chemicals
D. carbon dioxide, soil and sunlight
2. What kind of interaction is shown when worms live in the guts and flesh of
a fish?
A. mutualism
B. commensalism
C. predation
D. parasitism
Ecosystem
A. Living Community Non-living
Ecosystem
B. Living Community Non-living
Ecosystem
C. Living Community Non-living
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6. Which of the following describes a canopy of the rainforest?
A. composed of trees that are 130 to 180 feet tall
B. about 59 feet and consists of trunk of canopy, shrubs, small plants
and trees
C. consists mostly of fungi, insects, worms and litter from taller trees
D. has slender tees from a dense platform of vegetation with 60 to 129
feet
9. A reef that stands between the open sea and a lagoon refers to
A. Barrier Reefs
B. Fringing Reefs
C. Coral Atolls
D. Coral reefs
10. Why is there a need to protect and conserve the mangrove swamp
ecosystem?
A. It is home to animals like jaguar, monkey and owl.
B. It serves as breeding or nesting grounds of fishes.
C. It protects sea animals like sponges, mollusks and crustaceans.
D. It provides livelihood to the farmers.
Lesson
Ecosystem: Tropical
1 Rainforests
Living things and non-living things interact with each other in a Tropical
Rainforest Ecosystem. Living things include plants and animals. Non-living things
include soil, air, humidity, water and sunlight.
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What’s In
Directions: The following are found in tropical rainforests. Classify them as living or
non-living things. Write your answers in your Science Journal.
What’s New
Have you gone to a forest? How will you describe this ecosystem? How do
living and non-living things interact in this ecosystem? Write your answer in your
Science Journal.
What is It
The Ecosystem is an environment where both living and non-living things exist
and interact with one another. This interaction enables the survival of living things
and affects non-living things. Example of ecosystem is the tropical rainforests. Living
things that can be found here (are) please add composed of plants and animals. Non-
living things include soil, air, humidity, water and sunlight.
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Rainforest has different layers namely emergent, canopy, understory and
forest floor. Emergent refers to trees that are 130 to 180 feet tall. Canopy, on the
other hand, has tall slender trees from a dense platform of vegetation with 60 to 129
feet of the ground. The understory is about 59 feet and below and consists of trunks
of canopy, shrubs, trees and small plants. The forest floor is home to animals like
jaguars, tigers and cassowaries which thrive in a deep shade part of the forest where
plant life is thin. This is because only a small percent of sunlight gets through the
thick canopy and understory and reaches the forest floor. Organisms like fungi,
insects, worms and litter from taller trees that fall on the forest floor can be found
here.
Feeding relationships like food chain and food web occur among species in the
forest ecosystem. Food chain starts with producer, a series of consumers and
decomposers. Food web results from the interconnected food chains.
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Figure 3: Food chain
There are different organisms living in this ecosystem which interact with each
other. There are interactions that exist among the organisms in the tropical
rainforests.
Commensalism is an interaction
where organisms live together without
harming one another for example
orchids is attached to the trunk of a tree
without harming it.
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In mutualism both organisms benefit
in the relationship for example, a bee or
butterfly suck nectar from a flower and
the flower reproduces.
Competition is an interaction
wherein organisms compete for survival.
For example, grass, shrubs, flowers, and
trees grow together in one area where
they compete for source of food,
sunlight, soil nutrients and other things
needed for their survival.
What’s More
Directions: Read carefully and answer the following items. Write your answers in
your Science Journal.
• What are the interactions that exist among living things and non-living things
in the tropical rainforest?
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• Are the interactions among living things and non-living things important?
Why?
Directions: Complete the paragraph below. Choose your answer from the words
inside the box. Write your answer in your Science Journal.
I learned that …
What I Can Do
Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow. Write your
answer in your Science Journal.
Living things and non-living things interact with each other in a Tropical
Rainforest Ecosystem. This interaction enables the survival of living things and
affects non-living things. Can you identify the living and non-living things in a
Tropical Rainforest? Discuss their interaction.
Example: Plants and carbon-dioxide - Plants need carbon dioxide for food-
making, in return, it releases oxygen during the process of photosynthesis
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Additional Activities
Directions: The table below shows the different interactions in a tropical rainforest.
Choose the correct organism that shows the kind of interaction in a given
ecosystem. Write the letter of the correct answer in your Science Journal.
Interaction in
Organisms Involved
Tropical rainforests
1. Mutualism A. The shrubs, flowers and trees grow in one area.
B. The butterfly sucks nectar from a flower; flower
reproduces.
2. Commensalism A. The birds eat worms.
B. The orchids attach to a branch of a tree.
3. Competition A. The orchids attach to a branch of a tree.
B. The grass, flowers, trees grow together in one area
4. Cooperation A. The ants in a colony.
B. The snake eats a rat.
5. Predation A. The snake eats a rat.
B. The ferns attach on a tree.
Lesson
What’s In
Direction: The following are found in coral reefs. Classify them as living or non-
living things. Write your answers in your Science Journal.
1. crab
2. turtle
3. fish
4. sand
5. water
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What’s New
Directions: Answer the following questions below. Write your answers in your
Science Journal.
Have you gone to a coral reef? How will you describe this ecosystem? How do
living and non-living things interact in coral reefs ecosystem.
What is It
Coral reefs serve as habitat for many animals. They are a breeding ground of
marine life. It is composed of non-living components such as water and sand and
living components such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, cnidarians, sponges and
echinoderms.
Just like in other ecosystems, in coral reefs, organisms interact with each
other. The producers like sea grass, provide food and nutrients to the consumers.
These consumers include sea turtles, crabs, manatees (dugong), fishes and other
marine animals.
The factors that contribute to the coral reef formation are temperature, light
penetration, stable salinity and water movement.
There are different categories of coral reefs. Fringing reefs are reefs that hug
the shore of continents or islands. Barrier reefs are reefs that stand between the open
sea and a lagoon. Coral atolls are reefs that enclose a lagoon.
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Commensalism is an interaction
where organisms live together without
harming one another, for example,
barnacles attached on skin of turtles
without harming them. Barnacles are
benefitted while the host is not harmed.
Competition is an interaction
wherein organisms compete for
survival. For example, the fishes
compete for source of food and space
in the coral reef.
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What’s More
Directions: Answer the following questions. Write your answers in your Science
journal.
1. What are the living and non-living things found in the coral reefs?
Directions: Complete the paragraph. Choose your answer from the words given
inside the box below. Write your answer in your Science journal.
water movement temperature coral reefs fringing reefs
coral Atolls parasitism barrier reefs predation
commensalism temperature
I learned that ….
The factors that contribute to the reef formation are light penetration,
______________, stable salinity and _______________.
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_________________ is an interaction where organisms live together without
harming one another, for example, barnacles attached on skin of turtles without
harming them. In _________________both organisms benefit in the relationship.
For example, the corals receive oxygen from the algae; the algae get protection
from them. ________________ is a kind of interaction where one organism, the
parasite, depends on another organism for food, production and reproduction.
________________ is a kind of interaction in which one organism kills smaller
organisms for food. An example of this is when a big fish eats a small fish.
What I Can Do
Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow. Write it in
your Science journal.
Living things and non-living things interact with each other in a Coral reef
ecosystem. Coral reef is composed of non-living components such as water and
sand. It serves as breeding place for fish, crustaceans, mollusks, cnidarians,
sponges and echinoderms. Their interaction enables the survival of living things
and affects non-living things. Can you identify the living and non-living things in
Coral Reef Ecosystem? Discuss their interaction.
Additional Activities
Directions: Identify the interaction between the given pair of organisms in column A
and its interaction in column B. Write it in your Science journal.
Column A Column B
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Lesson
Ecosystem: Mangrove
3 Swamps
A mangrove swamp is a home to a diverse living and non-living things.
Different species of animals like crustaceans, fish and mollusk compose the living
part of mangrove ecosystem. Mangrove plants are the main organism that dominates
this ecosystem. How do living and non-living things interact with each other in this
environment?
What’s In
Directions: List down the living things and non-living things that can be found in
tropical rainforests and mangrove swamps. Write it in your Science
Journal.
Tropical Rainforest
Living Things Non-living Things
Coral Reefs
Living Things Non-living Things
What’s New
Direction: Pick out the animals that can be found in mangrove swamps ecosystem.
Write your answer in your Science Journal.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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What is It
There are varieties of marine and terrestrial life living in mangroves. Animals
like white heron (tagak), and other birds inhabit the mangrove canopy. Fishes and
crustaceans live underneath the mangrove roots system. Organisms like oyster,
mussels attached themselves to the trunk and lower branches of the mangroves.
Animals like monitor lizard, mudskipper and crustaceans such as shrimps and crabs
live in mangrove swamps. Also, migratory birds like pelicans, spoon bills and bald
eagles are also found in this habitat. Some saltwater crocodiles can also live in
Philippine mangrove swamps.
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Figure 7: Oysters attached to mangrove
Figure 8: White heron eating a fish
What’s More
Activity 1
Directions: Identify and discuss the interaction between living and non-living
things in a mangrove swamp ecosystem. Write your answers in your
Science Journal.
1. oyster and mangrove
Activity 2
Directions: Answer the questions below. Write your answer in your Science journal.
1. What are the interactions that exist among living and non-living things in
mangrove ecosystem?
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2. Are these interactions important? Why?
Directions: Complete every statement by supplying the blank with a word or group
of words from the box below. Write your answer in your Science Journal
I learned that …
What I Can Do
Photo credit:
Ester I.
Posadas
Additional Activities
Directions: Using the concept map below, identify the type of interaction that exists
in mangrove swamps. Give examples of organisms involved by writing
the interaction or organisms in the blank boxes. Do it in your Science
journal.
mutualism predation
oysters attached on
mangroves
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Assessment
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your chosen answer on a
separate sheet.
1. Which group of organisms can be found in the mangrove ecosystem?
A. mussels, fish, corals
B. worm, rat, fish
C. butterfly, snake, bird
D. mangrove trees, fiddler crab, fish
2. What are the things needed by plants to make their own food?
A. water, chemicals and oxygen
B. oxygen and carbon dioxide
C. oxygen and chemicals
D. carbon dioxide, soil and sunlight
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8. Why is the relationship between the corals and the algae in the coral reefs
considered mutualistic?
A. The corals benefit in the interaction and not the algae.
B. The corals receive oxygen from algae, the algae get protection from
corals.
C. The corals receive oxygen from algae while the algae are harmed.
D. The corals and algae live together without harming each other.
9. What kind of interaction is shown when animals like crabs and mollusks
help break down plant litter in a mangrove ecosystem through grazing?
A. competition
B. commensalism
C. parasitism
D. mutualism
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Lesson 1: What I Can Do Lesson 3
What I Know: Answers may vary What’s In
1. D 6. D Answers may vary
2. D 7. A Additional Activities
3. C 8. C 1. a What’s New
4. A 9. A 2. b 1. monitor lizard
5. B 10. B 3. b 2. white heron (tagak)
4. a 3. fiddler crab
What’s In 5. a 4. oysters
Living Things 5. fish
Trees Lesson 2
Tropical shrubs What’s In What’s More
Birds 1. Living thing Activity 1
2. Living thing 1. Commensalism-oysters
Non-living things 3. Living thing attached to the roots and
Sunlight 4. Non-living thing branch of mangroves
Oxygen 5. Non-living thing without harming it
Carbon dioxide 2. Commensalism-the heron
What’s New gets its food from the water
What’s New Answers may vary without affecting it.
Answers may vary 3. Commensalism-the crab
Snake eating a rat-predation What’s More get its food from the mud
Bee suckling the nectar of a 1. Answer may vary and it serve as its habitat
flower-mutualism 2. Answers may vary without affecting it.
3. Predation-big fish 4. The bird rely on the
What’s More (predator)eats small mangrove for its habitat and
Activity I fish(prey) food, the bird aids in the
Mutualism, Predation, 4. Parasitism- the worm pollination and propagation
Commensalism, Competition benefitted; the fish is of the plant.
The orchid is attached The harmed
orchid is attached to the 5. Yes. The interactions are Activity 2
branch of a tree Without important for the survival of Answers may vary
harming it. They live the organism
together without harming What I Have Learned
each other What I Have Learned -Mangrove swamp
-commensalism -Coral Reefs -habitat of organisms
If producer will decrease the -temperature -natural barrier and flood
consumer will decrease or -water movement defense
die -fringing reefs -mutualism
Yes, interactions are -barrier reefs -predation
important for the survival of -coral atolls
organisms -commensalism Additional Activities
-mutualism -commensalism
-parasitism Answers may vary
What I Have Learned
-predation
1. ecosystem
Assessment
(2-5-in any order)
What I Can Do 1. D 6. A
2. emergents
Answers may vary 2. D 7. C
3. canopy
3. D 8. B
4. forest floor
Additional Activities 4. D 9. D
5. understory
1. predation 5. B 10. A
6. food chain
2. commensalism
7. food web
3. parasitism
8. commensalism
4. Competition
9. mutualism
5. mutualism
10. predation
Answer Key
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