Abiotic factors (non living) that whales use include oxygen, water, sunlight and vibrations (sound waves).
Living things have the capacity to reproduce, non-living things do not reproduce. The living things use biological energy for their growth and development, non-living things do not require such energy.
Through decay when living things die, and through their wastes.
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If you need an example for humans, we use houses (non living) for shelter, which helps us survive. We aso use weapons (non living) to kill animals that attack us so we can survive. If I'm a wolf or something, then I use caves for shelter.
they don't... if you think about it, everything is living...
nonliving things are things that don't use energy
Well the only non-living things in the Sahara desert are of course land based objects. For example, the sand, rocks, dirt. All of these are non-living because they cannot grow, use food, or drink water. In other words they cannot do things living creatures can. Also bones are non-living things in the Sahara
Because we use them in order to live.
non living things like rocks sit there wile living things moveLiving things use the non living thing as shelter like birds with the nests and other animals making shelters underground or to camuflate like camaleons or stick insects. Also to make food such as plants to make sugar with the sunlight.nonliving things decompose and living things eventually die and decompose,
It is abiogenesis that theorizes about the way life could arise from non-living materials. Some may use the term spontaneous generation. A link is provided below to the Wikipedia post.
they don't live rad9999 checking in: living things need the following processes to be considered alive. movement , reproduction , sensitivity , nutrition , excretion , respire and growth . if its nonliving it doesn't do any of this.
They are literally non living but you could use a metaphor to say that it is living