Is temperature abiotic or biotic?

Question:- Is temperature abiotic or biotic?

Answer: Temperature is an abiotic factor.

The factors related to an ecosystem are abiotic, and include radiation/ sunlight, temperature, humidity precipitation, soil and air. These are the factors which are physical and chemical in nature affecting the living beings (biotic factors) of any ecosystem.

Temperature is an abiotic factor because it refers to the degree of hotness or coldness in an organism’s environment. It is a peculiar affiliation of a living organism to different processes taking place in it, for example, metabolic, growth, or reproductive processes. Another factor that has significance in influencing the occurrences and distribution of species in an ecosystem is temperature.

Temperature itself is not a biotic component but is an abiotic factor since it determines the possibility of asserting different species of plants and animals in a certain habitat.