Biotic and Abiotic Factors

The parts of an ecosystem that are currently living or that have once lived.

• Biotic Factor
• Abiotic Factor
• Species
• Biome

The factors in an ecoysystem that have never had the ability to live.

• Biotic Factor
• Abiotic Factor
• Biome
• Community

Many science words can be easily broken down to find their true meaning.  Look at the PREFIX below and match it to its meaning.
BIO

• Home
• Life
• Not
• Without

All biotic and abiotic factors are ____________. 

• Different
• Connected
• Identical
• Word Individually

What abiotic factors are present in the picture?

• Fire
• Oxygen
• Heat
• All of the Above

A certain plant needs moisture, carbon dioxide, oxygen, light, and minerals to survive. This scenario shows that this particular living organism depends on .

• Biotic and Abiotc Factors
• Biotic Factors 
• Abiotic Factors 
• None of the Above

Which of the following is a biotic factor operating within an ecosystem?

• Predators hunting, killing and eating their prey.
• Sunlight increasing the temperature causing fish to die.
• Increasing pH because of human pollution in a river system
• Destruction of a forest ecosystem because of fire.

Which of the following lists has ONLY biotic factors?
 

• snail, algae, guppy, sunlight
• temperature, Daphnia (water flea), snail, guppy (fish)
• snail, guppy (fish), Daphnia (water flea), algae
• temperature, pH, conductivity, nitrite concentration

Fish dying when the pH goes too high are an example of: 

• an abiotic factor limiting an abiotic factor.
• an abiotic factor limiting a biotic factor.
• a biotic factor limiting an abiotic factor.
• a biotic factor limiting a biotic factor.

An organism's _________ is defined as the environment in which it lives.

• habitat
• niche
• social structure
• ecosystem