What are Biotic and Abiotic Factors?

What factors both living and non living will affect my life?

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Factors affecting mouse

• Predators• Food• Shelter• Temperature• Weather• Competitors

• Pathogens• Parasites• Clean Water

Would the same factors affect this flower?

Factors Affecting Plant

• Predators• Food• Shelter• Temperature• Weather• Competitors

• Pollinators• Soil• Nutrients• Wind• Aspect• Daylight

What are biotic and abiotic factors?

• The living parts of a habitat are called biotic factors.

• Abiotic factors are the nonliving parts of an organisms habitat.

Classify the factors in the picture as either biotic factors or abiotic factors

List the Biotic and Abiotic Factors in the Image

Decide if Factor is Biotic or Abiotic

Write A if Abiotic_______ Mouse _______ Rocks _______ Water _______ Fish _______ Paper _______ Glass _______ Aluminum _______ Wooden Ruler _______ Sand_______ Clouds

Write B if Biotic_______ Corpse _______ Snail _______ Vegetation_______ Bread Mold _______ Trees_______ Soil_______ Plastic _______ Pipe _______ Air_______ Wind

Biotic or Abiotic or Both?

Fish Chair Water Train Atom Plastic Insects Wood Sea Shell

Dirt Dog Worm Burger Wheat T.V. Broccoli Pine Tree Energy

Flower Dead animal Wooden Table Cotton Shirt Sunlight Ice Hydrogen Strawberries Wind

Decide whether these items are Abiotic, Biotic, or can be argued to be both, then place in the Venn diagram.

Abiotic Biotic Both

List the Biotic and Abiotic Factors in the Image

Abiotic Factors

Biotic Factors