Environment

ENVIRONMENT

Environment is everything that is external to an organism. A human being's environment includes such factors as temperature, food supply, and other people. Nonliving environmental factors, such as temperature and sunlight, make up the abiotic environment. Living or recently living things, such as seaweed and food, make up the biotic environment. Both the abiotic and biotic environments interact to make up the total environment of living or nonliving things.

Abiotic environment includes such factors as soil, water, atmosphere, and radiation. The abiotic environment is made up of many objects and forces that influence one another and influence the surrounding community of living things. For example, a river's current, temperature, clearness, and chemical composition will influ...