Learning Activity I

Instructions: Complete the chart below. (30pts.)

What I know? What I learned?

From what I know, ecologist organized Ecologist often collect data such as
4.1 How do ecologist organized and study life by doing experiments, mortality, size, density, dispersion of a
and study life? they collect data, they observed, and population to study and organized
etc. life.

The characteristics of population are Size, density, Dispersion, Survivorship

A population size changes every year Lots of external factors affect population.
4.3 What factors determine In fact, internal factors are often
due to lacks of birth control. Another
whether, and how, a controlled by changes in the external
reason is due to wars, pandemic,
population’s size changes? factors. Natality, the germination, cloning,
diseases, and etc., that causes death birth, or hatching of new individuals in a
and it affects the population size. population is affected by external factors.
(e.g., climate, temperature, moisture and
soil) which determine whether a
population will grow or shrink.

Learning Activity II

Instructions: Understand the population growth model and answer the following questions below.
(5pts.each)
1. What is the term used to populations moving into an area?
- Immigration
2. What is the term used for populations leaving in an area?
- Emigration
3.Name two factors that cause an increase in population size.

-Deaths and Emigration

4. Name two factors that cause an increase in population size.

-Births and Emigration

Practice Task/ Assessment

Instructions: Understand the human population growth data and answer the following questions below.
(15 pts. each)

Human Population Growth

Objectives: Create a graph of human population growth and use it to predict future growth and identify
factors that affect population growth.
1. It took 1649 years for the world population to double, going from .25 billion people to .50 billion
people.
    How long did it take for the population to double once again?

- It doubled again between 1650 and 1850

2. How long did it take for the population to double a second time? 75 years A third time? to 1976, 51
years

3. Use a different color to extend your graph to the year 2015. In what year will the population reach 10
billion? – Possibly around 2016

4. Based on your graph, how many years will it take for the population of 2000 to double?

- 20 years

5. The graph illustrates exponential growth. Based on the properties of the graph, what does this term
mean?

- This means that the larger the population, the faster it grows. The Earth 's Carrying Capacity Prior to
1950, the death rate was high, which kept the numbers of humans from increasing rapidly. In the 19th
Century, the agricultural revolution increased food production. In the 20th Century, advances in
medicine, sanitation and nutrition decreased the death rates further. These factors combined to
produce the rapid growth of the human population in the 20th century. As with any population, humans
are also limited by factors such as space, amount of food and disease. The carrying capacity is the
number of individuals that a stable environment can support. There is no agreement on how many
people the earth can support. Though we can observe in ecosystems that as populations of animals
reach their carrying capacity, the population is at risk of starvation and disease. These factors will reduce
the population to it carrying capacity. Some countries have a much higher growth rate than others.
Growth rate is the number of people born minus the number of people that die. In countries with high
growth rates, the numbers of babies being born is much larger than the number of individuals dying.
This is called a positive growth rate. In other countries, the number of babies being born is less than
those who are leaving the population; this is a negative growth rate. To calculate the growth rate,
subtract the number of deaths from the number of births, this will give you either a positive or negative
number. Zero population growth means that as many people are being born as there are dying - to
achieve zero population growth, each couple would need to have no more than two children, which will
eventually replace the parents in the population. Even if this number is achieved, the population will
continue to grow because the parents will still live on for decades, as their children have children and
their children have children... and so forth 

II. Create a graph. (30 pts.)

YEAR A. D NUMBER OF PEOPLE (in billions)

1650 .50

1850 .70

1956 1.0

1970 2.0

1980 2.5

2000 3.3

2005 3.6

2010 3.9

2015 4.0

2025 4.4

2030 5.5

2035 6.0

2040 10.5

2045 13.0

2050 15.0

Directions in making your graph:

Place number of people on the vertical access. Values should range from 0 to 15 billion. Create a title for
your graph.

Assignment

Answer the following statements/questions comprehensively. (30 points)

Explain why the current estimation of the number of human populations is so speculative.

Human populations are also influenced by societal norms governing reproduction and technological
advancements, particularly in medicine and public health, which have reduced mortality and increased
life expectancy. Population predictions are simply projections of a set of assumptions about future
fertility, death, and migration rates in the future.

What are your experiences and discoveries you have learned in this module?

It cannot be stressed enough that such forecast are not predictions, despite the fact that
they are commonly misunderstood as such. A projection is a “what-if” scenario based on stated
assumptions, which may or not be true.

Lesson 2.
LEARNING ACTIVITY I

Instructions: Read and understand the following questions comprehensively.

1. What are the benefits of reducing safety risks? Site two examples. (30pts.)

There are numerous benefits of following health and safety practices in the workplace, and all benefits
are based around employers having a duty of care for their employees and anyone else who may be on
their premises. Benefit 1 – Protecting your staff Following health and safety guidelines is primarily to
protect employers and their staff from injury, illness or coming into any other form of harm in the
workplace. One of the main benefits of following health and safety practices is to prevent common
workplaces injuries such as back pain, falling from height, asthma, injuries from slips and trips and
asbestos related illness. Benefit 2 – Reducing absences Following health and safety guidelines and
maintaining a safe work place will reduce the risk of work-related illnesses and injuries, and therefore
reduce staff absences. Employers therefore also save money on the direct costs of absences, such as
paying salaries.

2. Differentiate the variance between types of environmental safety hazards. (20pts.)

Hazard is the potential for harm or an adverse effect (for example, to people as health effects, to
organization as property or equipment losses, or to the environment). The hazards, for example, are the
knife (workplace hazard), electricity (source energy), wet floor (condition), etc. Risk, on the other hand,
is the chance or probability that a person will be harmed or experience an adverse health effect if
exposed to a hazard. It may also apply to situations with property or equipment loss, or harmful effects
on the environment.

LEARNING ACTIVITY II

Instructions: Read and understand the following questions comprehensively.

1. What does Environmental Health encompass? (20pts)

Human populations are also influenced by societal norms governing reproduction and technological
advancements, particularly in medicine and public health, which have reduced mortality and increased
life expectancy. Population predictions are simply projections of a set of assumptions about future
fertility, death, and migration rates in the future.

2. What is Environmental Health targeted towards? (20pts)

Environmental health addresses all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person,
and all the related factors that can potentially affect health. It is targeted towards preventing disease
and creating health-supportive environments. This definition excludes behavior not related to
environment, as well as behaviour related to the social and cultural environment, and genetics.
Environmental health involves those aspects of public health concerned with the factors, circumstances,
and conditions in the environment or surroundings of humans that can exert an influence on health and
well-being. Environmental health provides the basis of public health. Improvements in sanitation,
drinking water quality, food safety, disease control, and housing conditions have been central to the
significant improvement in quality of life and longevity experienced over the last hundred years.
Environmental health practice addresses emerging health risks arising from the pressures that human
development places on the environment.

3.How can we ensure the conditions of human health and provide healthy environments for people to
live, work, and play? (20pts)

Environmental health can be integrated into sustainable development by: Improving environmental
quality for the poorest populations with the greatest burden of environmental diseases, by reducing
exposures to air pollution in homes and villages from biomass burning, and providing clean water and
sanitation.

PRACTICE TASK/ ASSESSMENT

Answer the following statements/questions comprehensively.

1. What is the relationship between the environment and human health? (15pts.)

Environmental pollutants can cause health problems like respiratory diseases, heart disease, and some
types of cancer. People with low incomes are more likely to live in polluted areas and have unsafe
drinking water. And children and pregnant women are at higher risk of health problems related to
pollution.

2. Why is it that a healthy environment is necessary for all human rights? (15pts.)

Everyone should be able to live in an environment conducive for their health and wellbeing. States
should take concrete and progressive steps, individually and in cooperation with each other, to develop,
implement and maintain appropriate frameworks to enable all components necessary for a healthy,
sustainable environment, which encompasses all parts of the natural world. This includes the regulation
of corporate and other private actors in their domestic and extraterritorial operations.

3. Explain how nitrogen oxides are produced and their environmental impact. (15pts.)

NOx is produced from the reaction of nitrogen and oxygen gases in the air during combustion, especially
at high temperatures. In areas of high motor vehicle traffic, such as in large cities, the amount of
nitrogen oxides emitted into the atmosphere as air pollution can be significant.

4. Make a table and explain the 3P principle.(30pts.)

People Process Product

the ordinary people in a country A process is a program that is Products are broadly classified
who do not have special power running on your computer. This into two categories – consumer
or privileges She is well-liked as can be anything from a small products and industrial
a senator because she listens to background task, such as a products. Consumer products
the people spell-checker or system events are products that the ultimate
handler to a full-blown consumer purchases himself for
application like Internet direct use. The consumer
Explorer or Microsoft Word. purchases these consumer
 products to satisfy his personal
needs and desires.

5. A. Site a place that shows a high active cases of the following diseases:

 TUBERCULOSISIn 2020, the 30 high TB burden countries accounted for 86% of new TB cases. Eight
countries account for two thirds of the total, with India leading the count, followed by China, Indonesia,
the Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and South Africa.

 MALARIANorthern Mindanao region In 2019, the leading region with the highest number of malaria
cases in the Philippines was the Northern Mindanao region, which recorded 54 out of 97 malaria cases
across the country. In comparison, Zamboanga Peninsula and the CARAGA region had respectively only
two cases that year.

 HIV EPIDEMIC- MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has registered the fastest-growing HIV/AIDS
epidemic in the Asia-Pacific in the past six years with a 140-percent increase in the number of new
infections, the health ministry and the United Nations said on Tuesday.

 COVID-19 PANDEMIC- As of December 16, 2021 the outbreak of the coronavirus

disease covid 19 had been confirmed in over 220 countries and territories. The virus

had infected almost 273 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had

reached over 5. 3 million. The most severely affected countries include the U.S Brazil,

and India.

B. Make a graph of the following diseases and explain how does it differ from each other. (50pts)

Disease Cases

Tuberculosis Malaria HIV COVID-19

• TUBERCULOSIS- Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by germs that are spread from person to person
through the air. TB usually affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body, such as the
brain, the kidneys, or the spine. A person with TB can die if they do not get treatment.

• MALARIA- Malaria is a serious and sometimes fatal disease caused by a parasite that commonly infects
a certain type of mosquito which feeds on humans. People who get malaria are typically very sick with
high fevers, shaking chills, and flu-like illness. Four kinds of malaria parasites infect humans: Plasmodium
falciparum, P.

• HIV EPIDEMIC- HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system.
If HIV is not treated, it can lead to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). There is currently no
effective cure. Once people get HIV, they have it for life. But with proper medical care, HIV can be
controlled. People with HIV who get effective HIV treatment can live long, healthy lives and protect their
partners. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system. If HIV is
not treated, it can lead to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Learning the basics about HIV
can keep you healthy and prevent HIV transmission. You can also download materials to share or watch
videos on basic information about HIV.

• COVID-19 PANDEMIC- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-
CoV-2 virus. Most people infected with the virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and
recover without requiring special treatment. However, some will become seriously ill and require
medical attention. Older people and those with underlying medical conditions like cardiovascular
disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, or cancer are more likely to develop serious illness.
Anyone can get sick with COVID-19 and become seriously ill or die at any age. The best way to prevent
and slow down transmission is to be well informed about the disease and how the virus spreads. Protect
yourself and others from infection by staying at least 1 metre apart from others, wearing a properly
fitted mask, and washing your hands or using an alcohol-based rub frequently. Get vaccinated when it’s
your turn and follow local guidance. The virus can spread from an infected person’s mouth or nose in
small liquid particles when they cough, sneeze, speak, sing or breathe. These particles range from larger
respiratory droplets to smaller aerosols. It is important to practice respiratory etiquette, for example by
coughing into a flexed elbow, and to stay home and self-isolate until you recover if you feel unwell.
ASSIGNMENT

Make a short poem that describes the health situation of your community. (50pts)

Keep your eyes open

And senses all alert

Be vigilant at all times

As your life may not revert

Do the things whole-heartedly

And never act in haste

The life is too precious

So never let it waste.

Achieving safety is easy

But sustaining it is remarkable

We should lead by examples

Putting the effort that’s memorable

Accidents do happen then

When we expect them the least

Our preparation should be optimum

And only then can we feast.