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Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Biotic and Abiotic Factors

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides a detailed lesson plan to help students grasp the concepts of biotic and abiotic. Background information is provided for the teacher and plans are given for two days.
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Biotic or Abiotic? Living or Non Living?

For Students 9th - 10th
This fun quiz has you choose between different images to decide whether it is biotic or abiotic. It also gives examples through illustrations of abiotic and biotic things.
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Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Seasonal Upwelling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons focusing on the process of upwelling. Inquiry-based exploration of seasonal upwelling includes marine food webs, food production in the ocean, wind-driven ocean currents, and seasonal changes in biotic and abiotic...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Symbiotic Relationships in Marine Ecosystems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students analyze videos to make observations about species, populations, and communities of organisms and discuss their symbiotic relationships. Then they create a hypothetical marine ecosystem and describe the adaptive,...
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Ecology: Abiotic Factor

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what an abiotic factor is, and discusses each of six types and their roles in ecosystems and habitats. (Published: July 31, 2010)
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Biotic vs. Abiotic

For Students 9th - 10th
This NY Regents prep site provides a nice overview of what abiotic and biotic factors of an ecosystem are, as well as a brief description of carrying capacity.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Competition of Abiotic and Biotic Factors

For Students 7th - 9th
This tutorial explores abiotic and biotic factors with videos and interactive activities.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Ocean Abiotic Factors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After looking at examples of biotic and abiotic factors in ecosystems, students focus on abiotic factors in marine ecosystems, the physical processes that are involved, and the impact human activities can have on these. Includes handouts...
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Other

Abiotic Factors

For Students 6th - 8th
Abiotic components are the nonliving components of the biosphere. Chemical and geological factors, such as rocks and minerals, and physical factors, such as temperature and weather, are referred to as abiotic components.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Fast Can a Carrot Rot?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students conduct experiments to determine what environmental factors favor decomposition by soil microbes. They use chunks of carrots for the materials to be decomposed, and their experiments are carried out in plastic bags filled with...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of ecosystems, covering biotic and abiotic factors, and the roles organisms play in an ecosystem.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Habitat Alterations of a Riparia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This field trip is designed to physically immerse students in the concept of habitat alteration focusing on biotic and abiotic habitat alterations.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Glencoe Middle School Science: Biodiversity and Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will conduct a field investigation to learn about the environment. They will observe biotic and abiotic factors of an ecosystem. Students can use the CBL 2 and a temperature probe to collect data and a graphing calculator to...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Ecology?

For Students 9th - 10th
A webpage giving an overview of ecology. Learn about the biotic and abiotic factors that make up an ecosystem as well as the different levels of ecology.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Adaptations, Interdependence and Competition Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
The abundance and distribution of organisms in an ecosystem is determined by biotic and abiotic factors. Animals and plants have adaptations to allow them to compete for resources.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: River Rewilding: Advanced Water Quality

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit, students will try to improve stream quality and reduce human impacts by taking action.This Advanced Water Quality unit is packaged into three smaller parts: Part 1: Stream Habitat Assessment; Part 2: Macroinvertebrate...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Abiotic and Biotic Factors in an Ecosystem

For Students 7th - 9th
Do you know the difference between abiotic and biotic factors? This tutorial explores both these factors and their importance in the ecosystem.
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Other

University of the Western Cape: Department of Biodiversity: Abiotic Components

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Department of Biodiversity at UWC presents the impact different abiotic components on plants and animals. Some factors are light, temperature, and wind.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Abiotic and Biotic Factors: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce abiotic and biotic factors, giving examples and comparing/contrasting the two. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Abiotic and Biotic Factors."
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: The Effect of Environmental Factors on the Growth of Plants

For Students 6th - 9th
How do environmental factors affect the growth, development, and health of organisms? Students explore the effect of environmental factors on traits by investigating factors that affect the growth of plants.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Online: Abiotic Factors

For Students 6th - 8th
Take this 8 question check quiz on abiotic factors. The quiz is multiple choice.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Diving the Depths of Underwater Life

For Students 9th - 10th
A tutorial that explores how and why the distribution of aquatic life is affected by abiotic factors, such as light, temperature, and salinity.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Ecology Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary used in studying ecology.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Temperature and Precipitation as Limiting Factors in Ecosystems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students correlate graphs of vegetation vigor with those of temperature and precipitation data for four diverse ecosystems, ranging from those near the equator to the poles, to determine which climatic factor is limiting growth.

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