Biotic or Abiotic
This type of factor includes anything that is alive or once alive.
What is a biotic factor?
Animals often rely on plants for these two things besides shelter.
What are food and oxygen?
This sacred plant is often braided and burned for purification.
What is sweetgrass?
Reducing single-use plastics helps protect these ecosystems the most.
What are aquatic ecosystems?
Plants make their own food through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
Temperature and rainfall are examples of this type of factor.
What are abiotic factors?
Name one way animals help plants survive.
Answers may vary (pollinating, fertilizing soil, protecting plants from pests).
This plant is commonly used in smudging for cleansing and protection.
What is sage?
An ecosystem with many species is said to have this.
What is high biodiversity?
Sunlight, water, and this gas are needed for photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
Identify this factor: fallen leaves on the forest floor.
What is biotic?
Name one way plants help animals survive besides food or oxygen.
Shelter, shade, habitat, nesting sites, etc.
Many First Nations and Métis people use this plant as an offering to show respect or gratitude.
What is tobacco?
Planting trees and preventing deforestation helps this ecosystem store carbon and provide homes for many species.
What are forests?
This sugar is the food that plants produce.
What is glucose?
Grass needs this abiotic factor to perform photosynthesis besides light and water.
What is carbon dioxide?
A caterpillar eating plant leaves shows how biotic components do this within an ecosystem
What is interact?
This sacred plant is known for its strong scent and is often burned in smudge ceremonies.
What is cedar?
When we protect ecosystems, we help maintain this important variety of life.
What is biodiversity?
Photosynthesis also produces this gas, which animals need to breathe.
What is oxygen?
Give an example of how one abiotic factor directly affects a biotic factor.
Many possible answers (e.g., “Sunlight affects how fast plants grow.”)
Explain how pollination shows plants and animals helping each other.
Animals get food (nectar) and plants get help reproducing.
Sacred plants are important because they connect people to these two things.
What are culture and spirituality? (or "ancestors and traditions")
Give one action humans can take to reduce climate impact on ecosystems.
Answers may vary (e.g., conserving water, recycling, planting native plants, reducing emissions).
Explain why photosynthesis is essential for life on Earth.
It provides food and oxygen for living things.