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    Name______________________________ Class __________________ Date __________________

    Skills Worksheet

    Active Reading
    Section 1: Ecosystems: Everything Is Connected
    Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
    An ecosystem is made up of both living and nonliving things.
    Biotic factors are the living and once-living parts of an ecosystem,
    including all of the plants and animals. Biotic factors include dead
    organisms, dead parts of organisms, such as leaves, and the
    organisms’ waste products. The biotic parts of an ecosystem
    interact with each other in various ways. They also interact with
    the abiotic (ay bie AHT ik) factors, the nonliving parts of the
    ecosystem. Abiotic factors include air, water, rocks, sand, light,
    and temperature.

    IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS


    One reading skill is the ability to identify the main idea of a passage. The main
    idea is the main focus or key idea. Frequently, a main idea is accompanied by
    supporting information that offers detailed facts about main ideas.

    Read each question and write the answer in the space provided.
    1. What is an ecosystem made up of?
    _______________________________________________________________
    _______________________________________________________________
    2. Biotic parts of an ecosystem interact with
    ______________________ ______________________ and
    with .______________________
    ______________________

    VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
    Read each question and write the answer in the space provided.
    3. Biotic factors are the __________________________ and
    ______________________ parts of and ecosystem.
    4. Abiotic factors are the ______________________ parts of an ecosystem.
    5. The root word bio means “life.” If you know that biotic means “having life,”
    what can you guess is one of the meanings of the prefix a-?
    _______________________________________________________________
    _______________________________________________________________

    © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    Holt McDougal Environmental Science The Organization of Life


    Name______________________________ Class __________________ Date __________________
    Active Reading continued

    RECOGNIZING SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES


    One reading skill is the ability to recognize similarities and differences between
    two phrases, ideas, or things. This is sometimes known as comparing and
    contrasting.

    In the space provided, write “B” next to biotic factors and “A” next to abiotic
    factors.

    _____ 6. animals
    _____ 7. temperature
    _____ 8. air
    _____ 9. dead parts of organisms
    _____ 10. organisms’ waste products
    _____ 11. water
    _____ 12. rocks
    _____ 13. plants
    _____ 14. sand
    _____ 15. dead organisms
    _____ 16. light

    SEQUENCING INFORMATION
    One reading skill is the ability to sequence information, or to logically place items
    or events in the order in which they occur.

    Sequence the statements below to show the order in which the information was
    presented in the passage. Write “1” on the line in front of the first information
    presented, “2” in front of the next information presented, and so on.

    _____ 17. The definition of biotic factors is given.


    _____ 18. Examples of abiotic factors are given.
    _____ 19. Examples of biotic factors are given.
    _____ 20. Interactions of biotic and abiotic factors are discussed.
    _____ 21. The definition of abiotic factors is given.

    © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    Holt McDougal Environmental Science The Organization of Life

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