Biodiversity

What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?

• Biotic are non-living things
• Abiotic are living organisms
• Biotic is life,
  Abiotic is non-living
• Biotic is non-living, Abiotic is living

What does biodiversity mean?

• Only one species in an area.
• The different amount of species in an area
• All abiotic life
• Nitrogen fixation

Which option is abiotic?

• Plants
• Bacteria
• Water
• Fungi

Which option is abiotic?

• Plants
• Rocks
• Animals
• Fungi

Which option is biotic?

• Plants
• Air
• Water
• Energy

Food provides animals with the materials and energy they need for growth, warmth, and motion. Plants get material for growth mostly from air and water, and obtain energy from sunlight.

Producers provide food to consumers because ―

• many animals prefer eating plants to eating meat
• plants can easily make food from soil and water
• animals cannot produce their own food
• plants are more abundant in ecosystems

A drought has hit this grassland biome. How will this effect the rabbit population?

• The rabbits will increase in number.
• The rabbit population will stay the same.
• The rabbit population will decrease.
• The rabbit population will become extinct immediately.

What is biodiversity?

• the study of living organisms in an ecosystem

• the variation of living organisms in an ecosystem

• a system of interactions between living and nonliving elements

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

True or false. Pollution tends to increase biodiversity.

• True

• False

What do biologist call an ecosystem that has reached its maximum potential?

• Rainforest 
• Environment
• Climax Community
• Biome