Abiotic vs Biotic Factors

Abiotic means

• living

• nonliving

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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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Temperature is an example of what kind of factor?

• biotic

• abiotic

• dead

• 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 of the following is a biotic factor?

• sun

• temperature

• soil

• grass

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Which of the following is an abiotic factor?

• mushroom

• air

• elephant

• coyote

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What is an example of a biotic factor?

• bear

• rocks

• soil

• water

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Lizards and cacti are biotic factors in a desert ecosystem that would rely on which abiotic factors?

• insects and sun

• water and insects

• snakes and temperature

• water and soil

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