Abiotic factors

Abiotic factors are....

• Non-living, physical factors of an environment

• Any living thing found in an ecosystem

• Only found in the taiga biome

• Living, physical factors of an environment

Which of the following is not an abiotic factor?

• Water

• Oxygen levels

• Plants

• Light

Water...

• Allows chemical reactions to occur

• Is essential for all living organisms

• Provides buoyancy for animals that live in the water

• All of the above

Which of the following is not a nocturnal animal?

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Aquatic animals lose water by a process called:

• Urination

• Respiration

• Diffusion

• Cardiac arrest

Ectothermic animals are _______ blooded and endothermic animals are _______.

• Warm, cold

• Cold, warm

This is an example of an ____________ animal.

• Ectothermic

• Endothermic

What is 'cool burning'?

• When you put out a fire using cold water

• Ancient practice used by Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders where wet sticks burn an area of grass

• When a bushfire is deliberate

• An Aboriginal practice where a small blaze is set alight to clear underbush

What is responsible for plants sprouting?

• The heat from a fire

• A fire

• Chemicals from the smoke of a fire

• Only the soil a plant is grown in

What is photosynthesis?

• A chemical reaction which explains the breathing rate of organisms

• The nutrients which are in soil

• The process plants make their food with using light, water and carbon dioxide

• The process which explains life expectancy of an environment