SOL 6th Grade Review (Watersheds)

The prefix "bio-" means life. With this being said, what are biotic factors?

• Living things

• Nonliving things

• Crepuscular things

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What does "abiotic" mean?

• "With life" or living

• "Without life" or nonliving

An ecosystem is made up of the biotic (​ (a)   ) community and the abiotic (​ (b)   ) factors that affect it.

• living
• nonliving
• man-made
• inorganic

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The health of an ecosystem is directly related to -

• water salinity

• water volume

• water quality

• water alkalinity

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​ (a)   factors determine ecosystem type and its distribution of ​ (b)   as well as the usage of land by people

• Abiotic
• Biotic
• plants and animals
• landscape and topography

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Organize these into biotic or abiotic factors:

Groups:

(a) Biotic

,

(b) Abiotic

• Topography

• Soil

• Plant life

• Geology

• Animal Life

• Water supply

• Air quality

• Bacteria

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Human activity can alter -

• biotic factors

• abiotic factors

• both biotic and abiotic factors

• neither factors

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Human activities can alter ​ (a)   . Plowing land for agriculture can ​ (b)   it while humans planting trees can ​ (c)   .

• erosion
• slow it down
• accelerate
• magma

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A water shed is -

• The land that water flows across or through on its way to a stream, lake, wetland, or other body of water.

• The land that is most porous so that water seeps into it to become groundwater.

• A literal shed filled to the ceiling with waterl.

• The land that is closest to a river, stream, lake, or ocean.

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Areas of _____ elevation separate watersheds.