1. Lesson on Biotic and Abiotic Factors

2. What factors both living and non living will affect my life?
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3. Factors affecting mouse
Predators
Food
Shelter
Temperature
Weather
Competitors
Pathogens
Parasites
Clean Water

4. Would the same factors affect this flower?

5. Factors Affecting Plant
Predators
Food
Shelter
Temperature
Weather
Competitors
Pollinators
Soil
Nutrients
Wind
Aspect
Daylight

6. Keywords for today
Biotic
Abiotic
Climatic
Edaphic

7. At the end of today’s lesson you will be able to
Define biotic, abiotic, climatic and edaphic
Give examples of each type of factor

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

9. List the Biotic and Abiotic Factors in the Image

10. Decide if Factor is Biotic or Abiotic
Write B if Biotic
_______ Corpse
_______ Snail
_______ Vegetation
_______ Bread Mould
_______ Trees
_______ Soil
_______ Plastic
_______ Pipe
_______ Air
_______ Wind
Write A if Abiotic _______ Mouse _______ Rocks _______ Water _______ Fish _______ Paper _______ Glass _______ Aluminum _______ Wooden Ruler _______ Sand _______ Clouds

11. 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

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

13. List the Biotic and Abiotic Factors in the Image

14. Abiotic Factors Climatic and Edaphic
Climatic - factors that relate to the weather
Edaphic – factors that relate to the soil

15. What climatic factors could we measure?
Light Intensity
Humidity
Wind speed
Temperature
Aspect
Slope

16. What edaphic factors could we measure?
Soil pH
Amount of water in soil
Soil Temperature
Soil Air
Soil Texture

17. Rice fields versus Marsh
Inquiry Approach
Do humans always adversely affect biodiversity?
Rice fields versus Marsh
Is the weather in Ireland the same?
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18. The Deer Population
A field study was conducted to observe a deer population in a given region over time.
The deer were counted at different intervals over a period of 40 years. During this period of time both ranching and hunting increased in the study region.
A summary of the data is presented in the table.

19. Questions on Deer Population
During which 10 year period did the greatest increase in the deer population occur?
State one possible action that could have been used to help maintain a more stable population of deer in the area.
Identify an abiotic limiting factor for the deer populations.
Identify a biotic limiting factor for the deer populations.
List two problems an overpopulation of deer can cause in the environment.

20. Abiotic Factors

21. Biotic Factors