Biotic and Abiotic Factors

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to understand the difference between biotic and abiotic factors in environmental science?

• Because it helps us understand how ecosystems function

• Because it tells us which animals are dangerous

• Because it helps us identify weather patterns

• Because it tells us how to grow plants faster

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One of the characteristics of living things is the ability to maintain ___.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are examples of biotic factors?

• Plants

• Rocks

• Animals

• Sunlight

Multiple Choice

Is wind a biotic or abiotic factor?

• biotic

• abiotic

Multiple Choice

Abiotic factors are ___________.

• non-living parts of an ecosystem

• living parts of an ecosystem

• things that once were alive, but now are dead

• not important parts of ecosystems.

Multiple Choice

Biotic factors are ___________.

• non-living parts of an ecosystem

• living parts of an ecosystem

• things that once were alive, but now are dead

• not important parts of ecosystems.

Multiple Choice

An ecosystem is made up of __________.

• living things only

• non-living things only

• both living and non-living things

Multiple Choice

Soil is an example of a

• Biotic factor

• Abiotic factor

• competition

• herbivorous

Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT an abiotic factor?

• water

• temperature

• grass

• soil

Multiple Choice

The Sun is the source of all energy within an ecosystem. Plants depend on light from the sun in order to perform the process of photosynthesis. Sunlight is an example of what type of factor?

• Biotic

• Abiotic