Forum 2.1 - Biotic or Abiotic?

2/10/2019

Central Question: What is a biome and what distinguishes one from another?

Guiding Thought Question: Are the biotic or abiotic characteristics of a particular biome more important when trying to understand and explain it? Provide an example to support your argument.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will evaluate the characteristics that can be used to identify a biome and their spatial organization around the world. Students will observe a representation of a biome to understand its defining characteristics and then conduct a map quest to better understand the spatial distribution of biomes

23 Comments

Stock

2/4/2020 12:18:53 pm

The abiotic ones because those characteristics determine what biotic factors can exist in that particular biome.

Lauren

2/4/2020 12:21:19 pm

Abiotic because the now living things like land affect the living things and characteristics they develop.

sydney

2/4/2020 12:22:05 pm

I think that the abiotic factors are more important to understand when trying to to understand a biome because the abiotic factors will influence the things that live there.

Erik Lehnsherr

2/4/2020 12:23:42 pm

The abiotic factors are more important. Knowing the conditions that the life needs to live in to survive is more important because then you will be able to relate it to the kinds of species that should live in that area.

Hannah Cochran

2/4/2020 12:23:49 pm

Abiotic because those characteristics will determine what biotic characteristics will live there.

hoover

2/4/2020 12:25:36 pm

abiotic because the abiotic characteristics of a biome can determine the types of life or evolutions animals must go through to live in that area.

Forget

2/4/2020 12:26:01 pm

Abiotic because these characteristics tell you of the biotic

nellie

2/4/2020 12:26:23 pm

abiotic because they are the foundation

stevens with a v

2/4/2020 12:26:36 pm

the abiotic characteristics because those are factors that make up the environment and land which determines what biotic factors can live there.

Abby

2/4/2020 12:28:45 pm

Abiotic factors are more important for determining different biomes because things such as altitude, temperature, and rainfall are all abiotic factors that are very important in distinguishing different biomes.

Kyler Harvey

2/4/2020 12:31:14 pm

it determine how things live there and which factors are made of the eniorment

paige

2/4/2020 12:32:15 pm

abiotic are more important because it helps determine characteristics of the biotic factors that are needed in biomes.

Skipper

2/5/2020 07:32:00 am

Abiotic because non living things will factor how the living things are and explain why things are the way they are

Figs Ju

2/5/2020 07:33:14 am

The abiotic factors are more important because it determines what kind of weather, flora and fauna are able to develop.

Gwen Carl

2/5/2020 07:33:24 am

I think that the abiotic factors are more important because if the abiotic factors aren’t there then the biotic factors can‘t come into the environment, an example of that would be the abiotic factor of dirt allows the biotic factors of trees to grow

Nawal Zahid

2/5/2020 07:34:01 am

The abiotic factors in an environment are more important because they influence what biotic factors are able to live in the area; they can also influence how the flora and fauna will evolve/adapt to survive with the abiotic factors sharing their habitat.

Chad

2/5/2020 07:34:26 am

I think they're both equally important. biotic factors can affect competition, and interactions between other animals. abiotic factors affect the adaptations the animal has made, or the range of condition it can survive in (precipitation, salinity)

Dylan Baker

2/5/2020 07:35:04 am

Abiotic because thats what determines what biotic things can survive in the biome.

Garret

2/5/2020 07:35:19 am

The Abiotic because everything biotic has evolved based off of the environment that they live

Blake

2/5/2020 07:36:07 am

Abiotic is more important because that is what they are constantly being effected by things like weather and climate.

Vacation

2/5/2020 07:36:26 am

I think that abiotic factors are more important, because that determines how they thrive. If there were plants and animals in a forest, and there is no rainfall or sunlight, it will be hard for the biotic factors to survive.

Jackson

2/5/2020 07:36:34 am

Abiotic because it encompasses all the non living things, including the landscape, topography, soil types, bodies of water, climate and geographical location. Knowing these can tell you a lot about the biotic things.

fatima

2/5/2020 07:45:14 am

Abiotic since the biotic depend and revolve from the biotic characteristics.

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