SciTech Vocabulary Learning Check #2

Which is an example of an organism interacting with a biotic factor of their ecosystem?

• a spider spinning a web

• a bird perched in a tree

• a deer drinking from a puddle

• a cricket burrowing in the dirt

Which fact best describes how Snowy Owls depend on other species to survive?

• They nest on the Arctic Tundra.

• They eat over 1,600 rats a year.

• They get whiter as they age.

• They are active both day and night.

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Lizards love to sleep on rocks, because they hold a lot of heat from the sun. They enjoy drinking water and eating worms. Pick the list of abiotic things they depend on.

• sun, worms, water

• water, rocks, sun

• sun, rocks, lizards

• worms, rocks, sun

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If something needs nutrition to grow and reproduce, would it be classified as biotic or abiotic?

• biotic

• abiotic

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What does E = A + B mean?

• Ecosystems have air and bears in them.

• Energy = biotic + abiotic

• Ecosystems are made of biotic and abiotic parts

• Ecosystems have air and birds

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What is the best list to represent an ecosystem? Remember, E = A + B

• rain, sunlight, soil

• energy, air, sunlight

• grass, soil, rain

• puddles, snow, rocks

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Is precipitation biotic or abiotic?

• biotic

• abiotic

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Pick 2: Biotic factors are...

• parts of an ecosystem that are alive

• parts of an ecosystem that were alive

• parts of an ecosystem that were never alive

• parts of an ecosystem that aren't important

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A flamingo reaches its bill into the mud, consuming tiny organisms and filtering out the mud. What is the biotic thing it is depending on to survive?

• organisms

• mud

• its bill

• water

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We observe a giant panda consuming bamboo. It takes a quick nap in a tree, then marks its territory on a rock. Before we leave, we observe the panda drinking water. What are two abiotic features it interacts with?

• rock, water

• bamboo, teeth

• bamboo, tree

• water, bamboo

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