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abiotic and biotic factors
Term | Definition |
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environment | everything that surrounds and affects an organisms |
biotic factors | features of the environment that are alive or once alive |
abiotic factors | nonliving physical features of the environment including air, water, sunlight, temperature, climate, and soil. |
atmoshpere | air surrounding the earth that is made of nitrogen and oxygen and carbon dioxide. |
soil | is a mixture of weathered rock and mineral fragments decayed organic matter, water, and air that can take thousands of years to grow. |
climate | refers to an area's average weather conditions overtime including temperature, rainfall, or other precipitation, and wind. |
how come soil can be considered an abiotic and biotic factor | its and abiotic factor because its mostly made up of nonliving material however soil contains decaying organism organic matter as known as humus. |