Abiotic factors are one of the many components of an ecosystem. abiotic factors include rocks, water, and sunlight. one way that an ecosystem differs from its abiotic factors is that

The ecosystem is the living part of the environment. Biotic factors include animals, plants, humans and more living things.

the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.