Abiotic Factors and Its Environment
ABIOTIC FACTORS AND ITS ENVIRONMENT
Abstract
Abiotic factors in the environment can affect an individual’s conditions, habits and activities. Tropics have altering weather conditions even if there is no seasonality. It may be sunny at a certain period of time then it will be overcast all of a sudden. Testing abiotic components would help us show diversity in different kinds of environment. Three varied location were selected; A classroom, a busy street (Recto Ave.) and the university garden. Temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, precipitation and evaporation rates were tested in each place, all with three trials then its average. A laboratory thermometer, slingshot psychrometer, barometer, graduated container cups and aluminium pan/containers were used respectively. Two containers were placed considering the physical conditions (if in direct sunlight or shade and indoors or outdoors). The experiment showed that the classroom environment has the least evaporation rate, most humid or the three locations, lesser atmospheric pressure and lowest temperature. There isn’t much difference on the results between the garden and Recto Ave. Only that the garden is more humid than the street and less evaporation. The researchers verified that temperature is the main cause. High temperature triggers some abiotic components like evaporation and atmospheric pressure to elevate as well.
Introduction
Ecology is a science that involves relationships between organisms and the environment. An ecosystem includes living organisms, the dead organic matter produced by them, the abiotic environment within which the organisms live and exchange elements (soils, water, atmosphere), and the interaction between these components (Ellis 2008). A limiting factor is a factor that restricts the size of a population from reaching its full prospective. Biotic factors need abiotic factors in order to survive. Abiotic factors include all the non-living components of the
Abstract
Abiotic factors in the environment can affect an individual’s conditions, habits and activities. Tropics have altering weather conditions even if there is no seasonality. It may be sunny at a certain period of time then it will be overcast all of a sudden. Testing abiotic components would help us show diversity in different kinds of environment. Three varied location were selected; A classroom, a busy street (Recto Ave.) and the university garden. Temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, precipitation and evaporation rates were tested in each place, all with three trials then its average. A laboratory thermometer, slingshot psychrometer, barometer, graduated container cups and aluminium pan/containers were used respectively. Two containers were placed considering the physical conditions (if in direct sunlight or shade and indoors or outdoors). The experiment showed that the classroom environment has the least evaporation rate, most humid or the three locations, lesser atmospheric pressure and lowest temperature. There isn’t much difference on the results between the garden and Recto Ave. Only that the garden is more humid than the street and less evaporation. The researchers verified that temperature is the main cause. High temperature triggers some abiotic components like evaporation and atmospheric pressure to elevate as well.
Introduction
Ecology is a science that involves relationships between organisms and the environment. An ecosystem includes living organisms, the dead organic matter produced by them, the abiotic environment within which the organisms live and exchange elements (soils, water, atmosphere), and the interaction between these components (Ellis 2008). A limiting factor is a factor that restricts the size of a population from reaching its full prospective. Biotic factors need abiotic factors in order to survive. Abiotic factors include all the non-living components of the
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