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Abiotic Factors
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.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Ocean Abiotic Factors
Students define and provide examples of abiotic and biotic factors of different ecosystems. Then they investigate the importance of abiotic factors and physical processes within ocean ecosystems.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Making Community Measurements: Biotic Factors [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students explore plant communities and observe and classify different types of vegetation. Includes discussion questions, extension activities and web links, a vocabulary glossary, and handouts.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Seasonal Upwelling
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...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Symbiotic Relationships in Marine Ecosystems
In this lesson learners 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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Pde Sas: Relationships Among Organisms
In this lesson, students compare various types of relationships among organisms (i.e., biotic interactions). Students will: explain the roles of producers and consumers, and predators and prey in an ecosystem. Explain the levels of order...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: The Effect of Environmental Factors on the Growth of Plants
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.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Temperature and Precipitation as Limiting Factors in Ecosystems
Learners 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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Baltimore County Public Schools: Biomes: Now and When (Online Research Model)
Biomes lesson designed to answer the question, how do abiotic and biotic factors interact within a biome? integrates biological concepts with literacy knowledge and skills. Includes directed questions, assessment guides, project...
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Diving the Depths of Underwater Life
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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Clemson Cooperative Extension: The Basics of Population Dynamics [Pdf]
Students learn the many ecological factors that affect the carrying capacity for populations of wild species.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Online: Abiotic Factors
Take this 8 question check quiz on abiotic factors. The quiz is multiple choice.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems
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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Habitat Alterations of a Riparia
This field trip is designed to physically immerse students in the concept of habitat alteration focusing on biotic and abiotic habitat alterations.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Glencoe Middle School Science: Biodiversity and Ecosystems
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...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
Students learn about Abiotic and Biotic Factors and how they affect the ecosystem in which an animal might live in.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Ecology?
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.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Happens When Continents Collide?
Tens of millions of years ago, plate tectonics set North and South America on an unavoidable collision course that would change the face of the Earth and spell life or death for thousands of species. Juan D. Carrillo explains the massive...
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Hub Pages: Abiotic Factors: A Component of Ecosystem
In the environment, there are external factors that really affect organisms living within it. One of these factors is the set of abiotic factors, or nonliving variables, such as wind, ocean, day length, rainfall, temperature, and ocean...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Abiotic Factors of the Rainforest
Abiotic factors, e.g., sunlight and precipitation, play a huge role in supporting biodiversity in a rainforest. This article discusses the features of rainforests and how abiotic factors affect the plants and animals that live there.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating the Long Meadow Lake Unit of Valley Nat'l Wildlife Refuge
This is a field investigation at the Bass Ponds Trailhead area in the MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge in which students will collect data in the field and samples to test back in the classroom. Students will try to elicit the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Fast Can a Carrot Rot?
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Characteristics of Life
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Videos, texts, activities, and assessments about the factors that characterize living things.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Ecology Vocabulary
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary used in studying ecology.
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