Interaction between Abiotic and Biotic Components
All living organisms depend upon their environment for survival essentials:
1) food
2) shelter
3) breeding site.
In turn the organism interacts with the environment in several ways. For example a plant uses the environment for the three purposes named above but in turn it also removes carbon dioxide and water from the air, it gets eaten by an animal or a parasite and it depends on the soil for its support. Therefore the plant is interacting with the abiotic components and other biotic components. They are both interdependent on each other. At different times of the year the ability of the environment to fulfill the needs of an organism may vary from season to season but interaction always remains, it may be to a lesser degree. This is true even for human beings. Now with advancement in technology we are comfortable in all seasons but it was not the case before. In countries where there is snowfall, people had to store food......
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