Abiotic Environmental Factors

2. Process in the clouds that results in precipitation
5. a graphical representation of basic climatic parameters, that is monthly average temperature and precipitation, at a certain location
8. Human body cells contain 80 percent of this abiotic factor
11. living factors in an ecosystem
12. trees and other plants add moisture to the air through this process
13. Study of the relationship of living things to the living and nonliving factors of the environment
14. Bodies of water add moisture to the air through this process
15. Environmental moisture falling from the clouds

1. The movement of water through the subsurface soil layers, usually continuing downward to groundwater. It is a part of the water cycle
3. This abiotic factor decreases with increasing altitude
4. large land habitats characterized by distinctive kind of dominant vegetation, temperature and precipitation determine types
6. Energy This energy from the sun is the source of energy for ecosystems
7. These aspects of the environment are nonliving factors
9. Contains weathered rock and decayed tissue from plants and animals
10. Temperature varies with this measure of elevation
11. is a global ecosystem composed of living organisms (biotic) and the nonliving (abiotic factors) from which they derive energy and nutrient
16. Weather conditions in an area over a period of time