Such things as soil, sand, gravel, rock, water, air and light are abiotic factors.
Deserts contain both biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) factors.
Deserts contain both biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) factors.
Rain or Sun
Sand, soil, gravel, rock and water are some abiotic factors found in deserts.
Sand,Air,All non-living things
Rocks are nonliving (abiotic) yet form part of the environment found in a desert.
Soil, sand, rocks, water, air
Abiotic means without life. A- =without, -bio- =life, -tic =pertaining to. Anything you can think of that is not alive would be abiotic. In this case it would be air, rocks, stones, gravel, sand and what little rain that would fall.
Seasons are not proven to be abiotic factors, so therefore they are not abiotic factors. But there are abiotic factors during the seasons.
Abiotic factors
A desert is a mixture of both biotic and abiotic factors. Soil, sand, rock, water, air and light are abiotic while plants and animals are biotic.
Nonliving (abiotic) factors include:soilsandgravelrockswatersunlight