Monarch Butterfly Blending into its Terrestrial Ecosystem

a) The butterfly (biotic factor) depends upon these flowers to provide it the nutrients (abiotic factor) needed in order to pollinate from flower to flower. The flowers depend on not only photosynthesis to help them produce their own food (producers) but they also depend on the butterflies to help with the germination/pollination process. Both of these factors are related because they both grow and live in the same area, and both need one another for survival. Butterflies are benefitted with their brightly colored patterned wings, because they ward off predators as well as blend in to their environment as a form of protection. b) These flowers (biotic factor) can only exist in the terristerial ecosystem, where there is plentiful sunshine (abiotic factor) and rainfall available; where aquatic ecosystems are not able to support the life of these flowers in a body of water. The lack of wind to help blow/carry the pollen from flower to flower after a butterfly has germinated it would be impossible under water with the absence of winds under water.

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