LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -An abiotic factor is a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment. In a terrestrial ecosystem, examples might include temperature, light, and water. In a marine ecosystem, abiotic factors would include salinity and ocean currents.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: An ecosystem is an area that includes all the interconnected living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components. Question: In science we call living things biotic factors and the non-living things abiotic factors.

Detailed explanation-3: -The nonliving things in an ecosystem create and define the ecosystem’s environment and include sunlight, temperature, precipitation, weather, landscape, soil chemistry, water chemistry and even base nutrient supply.