Abiotic and Biotic

Abiotic and Biotic Factors/ Components of an Ecosystem

​Lesson Objective: Identify Abiotic & Biotic factors in an ecoystem and describe how they interact

interacting populations of organisms with biotic and abiotic factors

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Ecosystems

Multiple Choice

What is the term used to describe all living things in an ecosystem?

• Biotic Factors
• Abiotic Factors
• Environmental Factors
• Population

Multiple Choice

What is the term used to describe all non-living things in an ecosystem?

• Biotic Factors
• Abiotic Factors
• Environmental Factors
• Population

More than one individual or population in an ecosystem relies upon the same limited resources

​​Competition

The role an organisms plays in an ecosystem

Niche

Multiple Choice

What type of organism makes its own food?

• consumer
• carnivore
• producer
• animal

Multiple Choice

An organism on which a parasite lives.

• consumer

• host

• prey

• decomposer

Multiple Choice

A consumer that hunts is called:

• a producer.
• an omnivore.
• a predator.
• a herbivore.

Multiple Choice

An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism

• Predator
• Prey
• Competition
• Adaptation

Multiple Choice

A _________ is an organism that gets its nutrients from another organism and causes harm to its host.

• parasite

• host

• consumer

• producer

Summary

Biotic factors living things in an ecosystem

Abiotic factors non living things in an ecosystem.

Ecosytem -interacting populations of organisms with biotic & abiotic factors

Competition - more than one individual or population in an ecosystem relies upon the same limited resources
Niche - role in an ecosystem