Question

name the components of all living things (both plants and animals). Include only elements in components

Answer 1

Summary

● Plants, animals and microorganisms together constitute biotic components.

● Rocks, soil, air, water, light and temperature are some of the abiotic components of our surroundings

Answer 2

Explanation:

Biotic components, or biotic factors, can be described as any living component that affects another organism or shapes the ecosystem. This includes both animals that consume other organisms within their ecosystem, and the organism that is being consumed. Biotic factors also include human influence, pathogens, and disease outbreaks. Each biotic factor needs the proper amount of energy and nutrition to function day to day.

Biotic components are typically sorted into three main categories:

Producers, otherwise known as autotrophs, convert energy (through the process of photosynthesis) into food.

Consumers, otherwise known as heterotrophs, depend upon producers (and occasionally other consumers) for food.

Decomposers, otherwise known as detritivores, break down chemicals from producers and consumers (usually antibiotic) into simpler form which can be reused.

In biology and ecology, abiotic components or abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems. Abiotic factors and the phenomena associated with them underpin biology as a whole.

Abiotic components include physical conditions and non-living resources that affect living organisms in terms of growth, maintenance, and reproduction. Resources are distinguished as substances or objects in the environment required by one organism and consumed or otherwise made unavailable for use by other organisms.