This vibrant picture shows part of a large population of flowers. Flowers are important biotic limiting factors. Biotic is basically another word for living and limiting factors are things that limit the amount of something in the environment. Going back to the image, flowers provide tasty snacks for bees and various other insects and create oxygen, a vital component in our lives. The many pretty flowers in the world do more than just sit there and smile! They limit the amount of oxygen in the air and also limit the amount of food for other animals. As you can surely see, flowers are an essential part of the ecosystem!
This is another picture which, as you may have guessed, also features some limiting factors. However, this time, they are both biotic and abiotic, or nonliving, limiting factors. Firstly, there are trees. Trees are living and so they are biotic limiting factors while another aspect of the photograph, the setting sun, is an abiotic limiting factor. Trees control the amount of oxygen that is in the atmosphere and allow other living creatures to survive. They also provide shelter and food for countless different animals. The sun is also an important part of all of our lives. It gives us the warmth and temperatures we need and allows vegetation to grow and this provides food.
In this way, trees, the sun, plants like flowers, and other types of natural things all play a part in limiting what we receive and control how we live. The ecosystem depends on this delicate balance of give-and-take; we limit what other living things have and they do the same for us.
These pictures have been taken by Starflower794, the author of this site!!!
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