What is a biotic and abiotic factor for deserts?
Biotic Factors Biotic, meaning of or related to life, are living factors. Plants, animals, fungi, protist and bacteria are all biotic or living factors Abiotic Factors Abiotic, meaning not alive, are nonliving factors that affect living organisms. Environmental factors such habitat (pond, lake, ocean, desert, mountain) or weather such as temperature, cloud cover, rain, snow, hurricanes, etc. are abiotic factors. Biotic factors are, in entirety, anything that affects a living organism that is itself alive. Such things include animals which consume the organism in question, or the food that the organism consumes. As opposed to abiotic factors (non-living components of an organism’s environment, such as temperature, light, moisture, air currents, etc.), biotic factors are the living components of an organisms environment, such as predators and prey. For example, if one were to examine a desert ecosystem for biotic and abiotic factors, one would observe things like the extreme temperatures
