Abiotic Factors Essay

Background research:

Ecology is a biological study of the connections between living and non-living things in an ecosystem. The living things are called Biotic factors, these include factors such as plants, animals, food and shelter. Abiotic factors are factors which are non-living, for example, soil, sunlight, water, wind and nutrient availability. For life to thrive it needs an ecosystem as they provide the essential nutrients for plants such as sunlight and water. An ecosystem “includes all of the living things (plants, animals and organisms) in a given area, interacting with each other, and also with their non-living environments (weather, earth, sun, soil, climate, atmosphere).” (Eschooltoday, 2017)

The initial nutrients that plants

Nutrients influence plant growth by providing them with the essential support they need for growth. For major plant growth, the nutrients needed are potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen. All this impact plant growth through; leaf coloration, produce production, a creation of photosynthesis and to produce healthy plants. In a pea plant, these factors are expected from these nutrients by having healthy leaves and stems, edible produce and strong, substantial vine growth.

As well as Abiotic, there are also Biotic factors which contribute to plant growth. This is by supplying the living organisms and factors with a way to interact and break down all the nutrients. These all break down into 3 categories; producers, consumers and decomposers. Producers are organisms such as grass and trees. They are producers who “absorb the sun's energy and convert the energy into food for themselves” (Minho & Lewis, 2017) By them absorbing the sun, it allows them to grow bigger and allow the plants to flourish. Consumers are the organisms that eat other animals or produce. Such as a hawk eating a mouse or a deer eating grass. These are essential to the ecosystem so that they speed up the decomposing stage. The Decomposers break down dead substances, this “returns nutrients to the soil so they can be reused by producers to create food” (Minho & Lewis, 2017) These biotic factors influence snow pea plants by acting as a producer for other animals and humans, as well as decomposing decaying materials and returning the nutrients to the