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Zoology · Ch 11 — Organisms and Population

Major Abiotic Components or Factors

11.3

Major Abiotic Components or Factors

Abiotic factors are the physical and chemical, non-living conditions of an environment that influence how organisms function and survive within it. The chapter groups the most important of these into temperature, light, water, soil, wind, humidity and altitude — each acting on organisms both independently and in combination with the others, and together explaining much of why …