Biotic and Abiotic Components

What is the difference between the biotic and abiotic factors?

• Biotic factors are living things and abiotic factors are nonliving things.

• Biotic factors are nonliving things and abiotic factors are living things.

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Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive

• biotic 

• abiotic

• living

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What are the biotic factors in this image?

• sunlight, elephants, and grasses

• sunlight, water,  and air

• elephants, plants, trees 

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What are the abiotic factors in this image?

• water, sunlight, dirt, air

• birds, trees, and sunlight

• water, trees, and birds

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Which term refers to the non-living parts of the ecosystem?

• Abiotic

• BIotic

• LIving

• Geosphere

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Which of the following could be considered an abiotic component of an ecosystem?

• bats under a bridge

• population of deer on a deer lease

• monthly average rainfall

• attack on a wheat field by a fungus

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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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Water, soil, minerals, nitrogen and energy are all essential ______ components of an ecosystem.

• abiotic

• Materials

• Biotic

• Environmental

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Which is an example of a biotic factor in the environment?

• The climate in the region

• Carnivores that consume other animals

• Amount of helium gas in the air

• Flow of water in a river

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What does an ecosystem consist of?

• all of the biotic organisms

• all of the abiotic organisms

• all of the biotic and abiotic things

• only biotic organisms

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