Abiotic & Biotic Factors

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

• Biotic Factors 
• Abiotic Factors 

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

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

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Which of the following is considered to be an abiotic factor in the environment?

• Water
• Trees
• Plants
• Coral

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A collection of organisms that interact together, as well as with all of the nonliving aspects of the environment is known as a(n)?

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A living or once-living organisms in an ecosystem is a(n)?

• population
• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• community

Two or more members of a particular species living and interacting in the same area

• Community
• Population
• Organisms
• Biosphere

Which one of the following is NOT a characteristic of a living thing:

• All living things grow and develop over the course of their lives
• Every living thing is made of cells
• Living things react to stimuli in their surroundings
• Living things make their own energy without outside factors

Match the following

• living things

• Ecosystem

• Nonliving things

• Biotic

•  the relationship between living and nonliving parts of the environment

• Abiotic

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

​ (a)   factors are anything that is not and was never living

• Abiotic
• Biotic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Circle the BIOTIC factors