Both Abiotic and biotic components together form the Ecosystem. All non-living components like air, water, sunlight wind, water are called Abiotic components, on the other hand living things in ecosystems like plants, animals, algae fungi are called Biotic components.
Abiotic Components-
Abiotic factors have three broad categories-
Biotic Factors-It has three broad categories
Let us now illustrate the differences-
Abiotic |
Biotic |
These are the non-living components in the ecosystem. |
These are living components of the ecosystem. |
They are independent and have no dependency on other components for survival. |
They have a dependency on abiotic components for survival. |
Not able to adapt to changes. |
Capable of adapting to changes. |
They have 3 categories climatic, edaphic social. |
They are categorized as producers, consumers and decomposers. |
We can do the objective measurement of abiotic factors |
We can do the subjective measurement of biotic factors. |
Water, oil, land coal etc are abiotic resources. |
Birds, Animal forests, marine resources are biotic resources. |