13.

2 Biotic and Abiotic Factors

KEY CONCEPT
Every ecosystem includes both living and nonliving
factors.
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An ecosystem includes both biotic and abiotic factors.
• Biotic factors are living things.
– plants
– animals
– fungi plants

– bacteria
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• Abiotic factors are nonliving things.

– moisture
– temperature
– wind
– sunlight
– soil
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Changing one factor in an ecosystem can affect many
other factors.
• Biodiversity is the assortment, or variety, of living things
in an ecosystem.
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Tropical rainforests have the highest level of biodiversity.

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• A keystone species is an organism that links

many other species together. This species that
has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem

keystone
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Salmon are keystone species in the temperate rainforest.

•Critical fall food source for the grizzly bear, wolves, eagles and
otters.
•Act as fertilizer for the trees.
 light energy

6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2

6CO2 + 6H2O + 3H2S ----------> C6H12O6+ 3H2SO4

Sulfide Sulfuric
Acid

13.2 Life in an ecosystem requires energy