Question 11 • 26-27 - C - RUSD Environmental Science S1
Biotic factors are living things, while abiotic factors are nonliving parts of the environment, such as light and temperature. Flowers responding to daylight, bears hibernating as winter arrives, and butterflies migrating for winter all involve environmental conditions. Male elk fighting over a female is an interaction between living organisms, so it is not an example of a biotic–abiotic interaction.
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