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Our environment has complex networks of inter-linked systems: system include: The interactions of living species with the nonliving entities around them. Environmental system also includes: cycles: flows of key chemical elements and compounds that move substances from one place to another within the system. Decline of the st. lawrence beluga population is helpful in environmental science because so many of these issues are multifaceted and complex. System: a network of relationships among parts, elements, or components that interact with and influence one another through the exchange of energy, matter, or information: receive inputs, process them, and produce outputs. Open systems: systems that receive inputs of both nrg and matter and produce outputs of both: both matter and energy can be exchanged across the boundaries. Closed systems: systems that receive inputs and produce outputs of energy, but not matter: nrg can be exchanged across the boundaries, but matter cannot.
