Abiotic and Biotic Factors

Explore biotic and abiotic factors in ecosystems! Identify living and nonliving elements.

Fill in the missing words below. Ecologyis the study of the relationships between biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem. Biotic factorsare living factors in an ecosystem. Biotic factors include plants, animals,and bacteria. Abioticfactors are the nonliving components of the environment. Abiotic factors include air,water, and soil. All of the following are biotic factors EXCEPT - mushrooms water bacteria flowers Abiotic factors are important to all living things. Which of the following is an abiotic factor? rain carbon dioxide sunlight all are abiotic factors Sort It Out! Categorize each clue as biotic or abiotic. Biotic grasshopper flea worms in the soil fungi tree roots flowers tree limb scallop Abiotic water rocks oxygen soil sunlight clouds minerals ice Match It Up! Draw a line from each vocabulary word to its correct definition. biotic living ecosystem includes both biotic and abiotic factors interacting together within a community abiotic non-living ecology the study of relationships between biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem basic survival needs food, water, shelter,