Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Biotic and Abiotic Factors- Questions

After listing questions that we have about our experiment and the general project, we asked more specific questions about abiotic and biotic factors and also listed examples of biotic and abiotic factors that most of us will have in our projects. Here they are:

Some abiotic factors: 

"factors that are not living" 
temperature 
atmosphere 
soil content 
"growing medium" 
amount of moisture in the air 
density 
light exposure 
weather conditions 
heat 
atmospheric pressure 
amount of gases in air 
amount of sunlight 
 
Some biotic factors: 



"relating to or resulting from living things" 
relating to photosynthesis 
amount of oxygen produced during photosynthesis 
growth rate- how will you measure it? --weight, height, something that can be measured-- how green the plant is, the diameter of the stems, number, width of the leaves 
glucose content 
amount of carbon dioxide taken in, used up 
population size 
size of the roots, how big, how thick 
number of eggs produced 
birth rate- how will you measure it? the number of eggs being produced 
life span 
amount of food and water needed to grow...... 

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