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| An approach of complex set of interactions that maybe ecological or sociatal. |
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| A simplified replica version of reality that can be used to understand how a system works and how it response to change. |
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| An approach that involves looking at how everything work together. |
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| Approach looking at each individual part. |
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| Planet earth is a single living system proposed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. |
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| When the flow involves a change in location of matter but does not involve a change in form. |
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| When the flow involves a change in chemical nature, a change in state or a change in energy. |
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| Inputs and outputs from systems represented by arrows in system diagrams. |
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| The stock held within a system and is represented through boxes |
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| An illustration of a process that displays data. |
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| Type of system that exchanges matter & energy. |
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| Type of system that exchanges only energy. |
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| Type of system in that involves neither matter or energy and is theoretical. |
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| Scale of an environmental systems |
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| Size & magnitude of the storage flow. |
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Mechanisms that maintain stability and equilibrium. |
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| Conservation of energy involving heat transfer. |
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| First Law of Thermodynamics: |
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Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change forms. |
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| Second Law of Thermodynamics: |
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Concept that energy is dissipated during any process. |
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Amplifies or increases change; it leads to exponential deviation away from an equilibrium. It creates instability in systems.
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Tends to damp down, neutralize or counteract any deviation from an equilibrium, and promotes stability. It creates more stability in systems.
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