ENV100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Arthur Tansley, Feedback, Magmatic Water
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Our environment consists of complex networks of interlinked systems. Flows of key chemical elements and compounds that: Move substances from one place to another. 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 of energy and matter, process those inputs, and produce outputs of energy and matter. Receive inputs, process those inputs, and produce outputs of only energy. Matter cycles among various parts of the system but does not leave or enter the system. The earth is essentially a closed system. When a system"s output serves as an input to that same system. Output that results from a system moving in one direction acts as an input that moves the system in another direction. Drive a system further towards one extreme or another. Rare in nature, but common in natural systems that have been altered by human impact.
