Ecosystems can range in size from small to large. They contain biotic factors such as living things like tigers, plants, bacteria, and abiotic non-living things like weather, soil, rocks, sunlight and wind. Temperature affects the density of substances in freshwater environments and impacts how easily animals can travel. An organism is a living thing that can act independently, while a population is a group of the same species in an area. A community contains interacting populations and the abiotic environment they reside in. An ecosystem includes both biotic and abiotic components. The biosphere encompasses all life on Earth and can be divided into regional ecosystems. Evolution is the genetic change in populations over generations, influenced by natural selection