What are Biotic & Abiotic Factors?

What is the difference between abiotic and biotic factors?

Biotic factors are things that are alive or have lived. Ex. a tree, a frog, etc.
Abiotic factors are things that are not alive or have never lived. Ex. gold, a rock, a bicycle, etc.


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Abiotic VS Biotic

Abiotic and Biotic Song

This is a song describing the differences between abiotic and biotic relationships. This would be a great exemplar to show students and have them come up with their own song, poem, or rap.

Ocean Abiotic Factors

This is a link to a national geographic video describing the ecosystems within oceans. It also provides some great suggestions for teaching activities.
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/activity/ocean-abiotic-factors/?ar_a=2

Lets go more in-depth with Biotic and Abiotic Factors!

This is a high school video on biotic and abiotic factors but the information is presented in such a way that some grade 7 students may be able to comprehend and understand some of the information.  This would be a great video for advanced students to challenge themselves with.  

How are producers, consumers, and decomposers related to one another?

Producers make, consumers eat what things are made like plants, decomposers eat dead things/ dead consumers.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_producers_consumers_and_decomposers_related_to_each_other#ixzz1x3IcoavE

A song about Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers.

This is an excellent song for learning about producers, consumers, and decomposers.

Here is a great powerpoint presentation explaining the difference between producers, comsumers, and decomposers.

http://www.slideshare.net/sth215/producers-consumers-and-decomposers

Producers, Consumers, Decomposers

Here is a video defining what Producers, Consumers, Decomposers.

Ecosystem Game

This game allows the student to place scientific terms in various bins.  It is interactive and easy to use.  To modify this game, you could allow the student to use an online dictionary to define the term before placing it into its bin. 

http://www.neok12.com/vocabulary/Ecosystems-02.htm