Question

An organism’s environment is all the living and nonliving things that surround and influence the organism(生物体). You are living with many things that make your environment suitable for you to live in. Would that be true if you lived in a swamp(沼泽)?

Environments include biotic parts and abiotic parts. Biotic parts are the living things in an environment: plants, animal, and other organisms. Abiotic parts are the nonliving things. Abiotic parts of an environment include climate, water, earth, light, air and nutrients. The abiotic parts of an environment have an important role. Temperature and amount of water influence which plants and animals can live in a place. An ibis(朱鹮) gets used to living in a warm, wet swamp and cannot live in a hot, dry desert.

An ecosystem is all the organisms living in a place together with their environment. An ecosystem can be huge, such as a large forest or desert. Or it can be small, such as a small pool or a single bush. Each ecosystem has its own collection of living and nonliving things.

A swamp ecosystem is made up of both living and nonliving things. The climate, plenty of water, air, muddy soils are all abiotic parts that make swamps different from other environments. Birds, black bears, trees, bushes, and mosquitoes are all biotic parts of a swamp environment.

1.Biotic parts include many things in an environment except _________.

A. snakes B. strawberry C. wheat D. sand

2.The example of an ibis is used to explain the importance of _________.

A. the organisms B. the abiotic parts C. the ecosystem D. the swamp

3.The underlined word “abiotic” probably _____ in Chinese in this passage

A. 环境的 B. 无生命的 C. 微生物的 D. 自然的

4.Which of the fo1lowing is not true?

A. If all swamps disappear, ibis will be endangered.

B. In an ecosystem, abiotic parts are not connected to the living things.

C. An ecosystem can be very big or very small.

D. An ecosystem includes living things along with nonliving things.

5.The best title of this passage is _________.

A. What is an ecosystem? B. An Organism’s Environment

C. A Swamp Ecosystem D. The Biotic and Abiotic Parts of An Environment

Answer 1