Question: Changes to abiotic factors in an environment can impact biotic factors. Which statement is the BEST example of this situation?
Answer: Drought conditions increase competition among consumers.
Hypothesis: a drought causes competition among consumers to increase
Supporting facts: sent1: as available water decreases , the population of plants will decrease sent2: a plants / living things require water for survival / to grow sent3: green plants are a kind of producer sent4: a living thing is an organism sent5: living things require water for survival sent6: a lack of something that a living thing requires prevents the survival of that living thing sent7: changes to abiotic factors in an environment affect biotic factors in that environment sent8: if an organism eats something then that something is a source of frood to that organism sent9: a required resource being low in availability has a negative impact on the something that requires that resource sent10: drought is when available water decreases in an environment sent11: as the available water in an environment increases , the populations of organisms in that environment will increase sent12: natural resources can be abiotic factors of an environment sent13: organisms are biotic factors of an environment sent14: an animal needs to eat food for nutrients sent15: loss of resources has a negative impact on the organisms in an area sent16: the increase of something required by an organism has a positive impact on that organism 's survival sent17: organisms compete for resources in an environment sent18: if two animals have the same food source then those two animals compete for food sent19: a decrease is a kind of change sent20: a consumer is a kind of living thing sent21: decreasing something positive has a negative impact on a thing sent22: if an organism can compete for resources then more resources will become available to that organism sent23: as the supply of food in an environment decreases , the population of animals in that environment will decrease sent24: water is a kind of natural resource sent25: if something is required for a process then that something positively impacts that process
Reasoning: [BECAUSE] natural resources can be abiotic factors of an environment [AND] organisms are biotic factors of an environment [INFER] int1: resources are generally abiotic factors of an environment and organisms are biotic features of an environment [BECAUSE] int1 [AND] changes to abiotic factors in an environment affect biotic factors in that environment [INFER] int2: changes to resources in an environment affect organsims in that environment [BECAUSE] int2 [AND] a decrease is a kind of change [INFER] int3: a decrease in resources in an environment affects organisms in that environment [BECAUSE] int3 [AND] organisms compete for resources in an environment [INFER] int4: as a resource required by an organism decreases , the competition among organisms that require that resource will increase [BECAUSE] int4 [AND] a living thing is an organism [INFER] int5: as a resource required by a living thing decreases, the competition among living things that require that resource will increase [BECAUSE] water is a kind of natural resource [AND] living things require water for survival [INFER] int6: water is a kind of resource that is required by living things [BECAUSE] int5 [AND] int6 [INFER] int7: as water in an evironment decreases, the competition among living things increases [BECAUSE] int7 [AND] a consumer is a kind of living thing [INFER] int8: as water in an evironment decreases, the competition among consumers increases [BECAUSE] int8 [AND] drought is when available water decreases in an environment [INFER] int9: a drought causes competition among consumers to increase