The water from a trough and the temperature outside would be abiotic factors. the grass it grazes on or a cowbird picking bugs off of it would be biotic factors (for future reference, abiotic factors are caused by nonliving things, and biotic factors are caused by other organisms)
By the unequal heating of earths surface
Law of Superposition
a basic law of geochronology, stating that in any undisturbed sequence of rocks deposited in layers, the youngest layer is on top and the oldest on bottom, each layer being younger than the one beneath it and older than the one above it.
Technology such as lenses, magnifying glasses, and microscopes had an impact on the development of the cell theory. Below are some examples of how such technologies contributed to the cell theory. Robert Hooke is accredited with observing the first cells in 1665. ... He used lenses to make the discovery.