Ecosystem

includes all abiotic and biotic factors in one particular environment

Biotic Factors
the living parts of an ecosystem

Abiotic Factors
the nonliving parts of an ecosystem

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Biotic Factors
include plants, animals, fungi, microorganisms

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Biotic Factors/ Components

These are the living things an environment. Biotic means living, and biotic factors are the other, living parts of the ecosystem with which an organism must interact. The biotic factors with which an organism interacts depend on whether it is a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer.

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Examples of Biotic Factors

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Biotic Factors
interact with each other in complex such as ways also interact with abiotic factors in the ecosystem

parasitism mutualism competition

dependent upon water, minerals, temperature, light

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Abiotic Factors
include air, water, soil, temperature, wind, source of energy (usually sun)

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Abiotic Factors
abiotic- without life Refers to those environmental factors that are not alive, the non-living components of the environment.

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Examples of Abiotic Factors

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Difference Between Biotic and Abiotic factors

The difference between these two factors is that biotic deals with the living parts of the environment and abiotic deals with the nonliving part of the environment, Eg, the sun, which is an abiotic factor aid in photosynthesis for plants, which is a biotic factor that makes food

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