Animals Interact with their Environment

Categorize

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Living/Once-Living

Non-Living

Dead Tree

Dirt/Soil

Insects

Bacteria

Predators

Sun

Water

Plants

Fungi

Wind

Rocks

Air

Temperature

Animals

Categorize the following ecosystem components as either biotic or abiotic factors

Biotic Factors

Abiotic Factors

Multiple Select

Which organism(s) BENEFIT from that scenario?

• Monkeys

• Termites

• Tree

• Ants

The ants go

marching
one-by-one...

Multiple Choice

What are the biotic factors in this image?

• sunlight, elephants, and grasses
• sunlight, water,  and air
• elephants, plants, trees 

Multiple Choice

What are the abiotic factors in this image?

• water, sunlight, dirt, air

• birds, trees, and sunlight

• water, trees, and birds

Multiple Choice

Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

Multiple Choice

A farmer is reading a guide to learn about how to make changes to a pond so it will support native wildlife. The guide give the following suggestions...

-Reduce soil erosion by keeping grazing animals away from the banks of the pond.

-Add large rocks to provide sunning sites for turtles.

-Allow plants to grow along the shoreline to provide cover, nests, and food for wildlife.

-Float logs near the edge of the water to provide habitats for salamanders.

Which suggestion below involves interactions between two groups of living organisms?

• Reduce soil erosion by keeping grazing animals away from the banks of the pond.

• Add large rocks to provide sunning sites for turtles.

• Allow plants to grow along the shoreline to provide cover, nests, and food for wildlife.

• Float logs near the edge of the water to provide habitats for salamanders.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following obtains energy without depending on another organism?

• Mushroom

• Elm tree

• Mountain lion

• Cottontail rabbit

Multiple Choice

Agamas are a species of lizards. They can be kept in a terrarium to study their behavior and how they interact with their environment.

Which of the following observations describes this agama lizard interacting with the living elements in its environment?

• The agama rested on one of the rocks and lifted its head toward the light.

• The agama jumped from the rock and scattered sand with its tail.

• The agama drank some water and then ran across the sand.

• The agama climbed the plant and then ate a cricket off one of the leaves.

Multiple Choice

Mr. Salgado observed birds in a park and recorded some ways that birds interact with living and nonliving parts of their environment.

All of the following observations are ways that a bird interacts with nonliving parts of its environment EXCEPT...

• feeding insects to its chicks

• drinking and taking a bath in a puddle of water

• responding to cold weather by fluffing its feathers

• reacting to morning sunlight by singing