What nonliving materials are important to living things?

Nonliving things also have unlimited duration of existence. While living things die and decompose, nonliving things such as rocks, mountains, air and water have existed for millions of years. They may grow, but they do so only by accretion, which is the process of growth by accumulating added layers of matter.

Nonliving may include:

water

gas or air (oxygen and carbon dioxide)

soil (for plant)

sunshine

Plant is isnot include because they are living things