Question

Difference between:
Biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem.

Answer 1

Hint:
Ecosystem: It is an interconnection between living and non- living components.
Sir Arthur G. Tansley in 1935 coined the term ecosystem.
It provides home or habitat to different types of plants and animals.
Ecosystem helps in recycling of nutrients from biotic and abiotic components

Complete step by step answer:
Ecosystem: It is defined as a group or system in which living and non living components of the environment interact with each other through nutrient cycle or by the food chain.
Ecosystems are controlled by
1.External factors
2.Internal factors.
External factors are: climate, topography, material for soil formation.
Internal Factors are: Decomposition, shading, root completion.
Primarily, an ecosystem collected from two main components.
A. Biotic components
B. Abiotic components
Biotic components: Biotic components or biotic factors are the living components of the ecosystem.
Biotic factors respond to the stimuli and they also need energy to work.
Abiotic components: Abiotic components or abiotic factors are the non living component of the ecosystem.
They are also known as environmental factors.
In other words, it is a sum covering of all the ecosystem.
Abiotic factors are atmosphere, chemical, sunlight/temperature, wind, and water.

Basis of comparison	Biotic	Abiotic
Meaning	Living thing	Non living thing
Dependency	Depends upon abiotic factors for survival	Do not depend upon biotic
Measurement	It is subjective	It is objective
Adaptation	Can adapt to change in environment	Cannot adapt to change in environment
Components	They include different animals, plants and bacteria	They include soil, topography, climate etc.
Origin	Originate from the biosphere	Originate from the lithosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere.
Examples	Humans, wild animals, insects etc.	Temperature, rainfall, soil etc.

Note:
Biotic factors consist of producers or autotrophs, consumers or heterotrophs, and decomposers or detritivores. Producers are the kind of organisms that prepare their food by themselves like green plants, algae, bacteria, and more. Abiotic factors are ones that determine the number and kind of living organisms that survive the ecosystem. Similarly, any change in abiotic factors may bring momentous changes in the biotic factors.