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MET #7 INTERACTION AND INTERDEPENDENCE

Lesson # 7.2 BIOTIC POTENTIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESISTANCE

Prerequisite Content-knowledge: Biotic and Abiotic Factors:

The students will be able to differentiate biotic from abiotic components of an ecosystem

Prerequisite Skill: Communication, Critical Thinking

The students will be able to determine the characteristics of a Biotic and Abiotic component.

Prerequisites Assessment: 1-minute paper: Venn Diagram

The students shall differentiate Biotic from abiotic factors using a Venn Diagram.

Pre-lesson Remediation Activity:

For Students with Insufficient Level on Prerequisite Content-knowledge and/or Skill(s): Additional reading and guide question on the components of ecosystem.

Article: ECOSYSTEM
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/ecosystem

An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic or living,
parts, as well as abiotic factors, or nonliving parts. Biotic factors include plants, animals, and other organisms. Abiotic factors include rocks, temperature, and humidity.

Every factor in an ecosystem depends on every other factor, either directly or indirectly. A change in the temperature of an ecosystem will often affect what plants will grow there, for instance.
Animals that depend on plants for food and shelter will have to adapt to the changes, move to another ecosystem, or perish.

Ecosystems can be very large or very small. Tide pools, the ponds left by the ocean as the tide goes out, are complete, tiny ecosystems. Tide pools contain seaweed, a kind of algae, which
uses photosynthesis to create food. Herbivores such as abalone eat the seaweed. Carnivores such as sea stars eat other animals in the tide pool, such as clams or mussels. Tide pools
depend on the changing level of ocean water. Some organisms, such as seaweed, thrive in an aquatic environment, when the tide is in and the pool is full. Other organisms, such as hermit
crabs, cannot live underwater and depend on the shallow pools left by low tides. In this way, the biotic parts of the ecosystem depend on abiotic factors.

The whole surface of Earth is a series of connected ecosystems. Ecosystems are often connected in a larger biome. Biomes are large sections of land, sea, or atmosphere. Forests, ponds,
reefs, and tundra are all types of biomes, for example. They're organized very generally, based on the types of plants and animals that live in them. Within each forest, each pond, each reef,
or each section of tundra, you'll find many different ecosystems.

The biome of the Sahara Desert, for instance, includes a wide variety of ecosystems. The arid climate and hot weather characterize the biome. Within the Sahara are oasis ecosystems,
which have date palm trees, freshwater, and animals such as crocodiles. The Sahara also has dune ecosystems, with the changing landscape determined by the wind. Organisms in these
ecosystems, such as snakes or scorpions, must be able to survive in sand dunes for long periods of time. The Sahara even includes a marine environment, where the Atlantic Ocean creates
cool fogs on the Northwest African coast. Shrubs and animals that feed on small trees, such as goats, live in this Sahara ecosystem.

Even similar-sounding biomes could have completely different ecosystems. The biome of the Sahara Desert, for instance, is very different from the biome of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and
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China. The Gobi is a cold desert, with frequent snowfall and freezing temperatures. Unlike the Sahara, the Gobi has ecosystems based not in sand, but kilometers of bare rock. Some
grasses are able to grow in the cold, dry climate. As a result, these Gobi ecosystems have grazing animals such as gazelles and even takhi, an endangered species of wild horse.

Even the cold desert ecosystems of the Gobi are distinct from the freezing desert ecosystems of Antarctica. Antarctica’s thick ice sheet covers a continent made almost entirely of dry, bare
rock. Only a few mosses grow in this desert ecosystem, supporting only a few birds, such as skuas.

Complete the Table: Based from the article Define what is Biotic and Abiotic Components and give Examples.
BIOTIC COMPONENTS ABIOTIC COMPONENTS
Definition: Definition:

Examples: Example:

For Students with Fairly Sufficient Level on Prerequisite Content-knowledge and/or Skill(s): Venn Diagram of Biotic and Abiotic Factors

Introduction:

1. time frame a student is expected to finish in learning the lesson (and where to contact the teacher when concerns arise)
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 2 meetings (2 hours)
 Online: message teacher through LMS/Zoom meeting Chat Box/Messenger or class Group Chat
 Offline: Text or Call teacher following the consultation schedule (09510625210)

2. the knowledge (RUA) the student is expected to gain from learning the topic/lesson
 MELC - categorize the different biotic potential and environmental resistance (e.g., diseases, availability of food, and predators) that affect population explosion

3. Context where the student is going to apply his/learning (In what PAA/EFAA and personal use?)
Situation/Picture Analysis
 Identify the different biotic potential and environmental resistance
 Suggest possible methods to control or enhance population growth depending on the effects on the community

4. Overview of the Lesson

Every living thing relies upon one another and their

environment. No living creature
could make due all alone without relying upon different
living beings and its
environment. Interaction and interdependence are two
important relationships in
nature. Ecology is the branch of biology that deals with the
study of these
relationships of interaction and interdependence between
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living things and their

environment. The area wherein living things associate with
each other and with their
environment is known as the ecosystem. Association among
species help shape
ecosystem.
Every living thing relies upon one another and their
environment. No living creature
could make due all alone without relying upon different
living beings and its
environment. Interaction and interdependence are two
important relationships in
nature. Ecology is the branch of biology that deals with the
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study of these
relationships of interaction and interdependence between
living things and their
environment. The area wherein living things associate with
each other and with their
environment is known as the ecosystem. Association among
species help shape
ecosystem. Every living things relies upon one another and their environment. No living creature could make due all alone without relying upon different living beings and its environment. Interaction and
interdependence are two important relationships in nature.

Student’s Experiential Learning: (Note: Use the Flexible Learning Activity Identified for the topic/lesson relative to the General Enabling Teaching Strategy)
ACTIVITY 1 (Chunk 1): Study the Pictures the pictures below and answer the questions that follows.

Formative question:
1. Who has the highest Biotic Potential
2. What possible environmental resistance may affect the population growth of each organism above
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ACTIVITY 2 (Chunk 2): Identify the following if it is a Biotic potential or Environmental Resistance and explain your answer.

Answer: _______________________
Explanation: _____________________________________________
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Explanation: _____________________________________________
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Explanation: _____________________________________________
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Synthesis
Population Size depends on interaction between biotic potential and environmental resistance

RUA of a Student’s Learning:

Explain through any medium (Essay, Pictograph, Infographics, Pantomime short answer) how Biotic potential and Ecological resistance affects the population growth of an organism.

Post-lesson Remediation Activity:

CARTOON ANALYSIS Study the picture below and answer the following questions

1. What is the biotic potential and environmental resistance depicted in the cartoon?
2. How is population growth affected by these biotic potential and environmental resistance?
3. How does the population growth affect the environment?