Environmental Systems and Societies Revision for test week Ecosystems – “An assemblage of parts working together forming a functioning whole.” “A community of independent organisms and the physical environment they inhabit.” All systems have many small parts working together. A system can be living (BIOTIC FACTORS) or non-living (ABIOTIC FACTORS) and has inputs as well as outputs. A system can be an abstract concept as well as something tangible. All systems have: * STORAGES * FLOWS
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EXPERIMENT #1: Representing Systems and Models: The Tea Lab HOMEWORK QUESTIONS: 1) An open system exchanges matter and energy with its surroundings. A closed system exchanges energy but no matter with its environment. An isolated system exchanges neither matter nor energy with its environment. Isolated systems do not exist naturally though it is possible to think of the entire universe. The tea system is an open system because it exchanges energy (heat) with its air/surroundings. 2)
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The decline of medieval societies was caused by a number of people and events. With the decline of the medieval frontier because of the bubonic plague or “Black Death” as it’s know‚ led to many civilians spreading out to a rural style of living. The more populated cities and state’s were more vulnerable to infection because of so many living so close together many who survived took there chance leaving the cities and the more rural areas had less infected. No longer being able to obtain all the necessities
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Japanese feudal system during the Kamakaru Shogunate from 1100 to 1868 and Europe’s feudal system during the middle ages from the 800’s to the 1600’s were similar regarding warriors and weapons‚ considering that they were based on similar codes of conduct and weaponry‚ were similar in their socio-political division that had a similar hereditary hierarchy‚ but the treatment of women differed in that women were allowed to serve in Japanese warrior class but not in the European’s. European knights
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structure but mainly lower class‚ middle class‚ and high class. Before our time they also went by three levels‚ the old saying describing the social structure of medieval Europe as “those who pray‚ those who fight‚ and those who work.” Means that there are three estates in the social structure as the church‚ knights‚ and the workers. Those who pray are the clergy of the Roman Catholic church. There are many different people of the church. There is a social structure within the church to make sure
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Discuss medieval English society. How were women and children treated during this period? What was life like in the towns and in the countryside? What was life like in medieval London? In the beginning of the medieval period‚ life was marked by war‚ famine‚ and death. People lived day to day‚ and the majority of the English citizen’s main concern was survival. Many people were tied to the land in a structure known as feudalism. This unfair system kept the peasants poor and dependant‚ while solidifying
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CIVIL‚ ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOMATIC ENGINEERING Systems‚ Society and Sustainability The global challenge of sustainable development requires solutions and mindsets that bridge traditional divisions between nature and culture‚ and the technical and social sciences. Sustainable development requires that engineers and other professionals are able to include social and ecological considerations alongside technical and economic requirements in managing projects and infrastructure. This course outlines
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reforestation * Reduce deforestation Direct Value: * Things that we directly benefit from * Consumptive use—resources used directly * Things that we get directly‚ or that we take—Food would be an example of this. Indirect Value: * Values assigned that do not involve harvesting or destroying resources (non-consumptive) * Examples: Insects and the soil * Things that we indirectly benefit from‚ or like trees that we get indirectly ………………………………………………………………………………… Biodiversity
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1.) Identification of Problem: Key Issues/Problems: Carson Manor is a nursing home that houses the elderly and provides them with nursing care. This case of Carson Manor the nursing home is fraught with cost inefficiencies. There are more issues with the system of classifying patients and the levels of nursing care given to each of those patients. Potential Problems include: * Budget is massively inefficient in keeping and taking care of the elderly within the nursing home. * Nurses will
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Introduction What is the justice system? The justice system must punish the guilty‚ protect our liberties and rehabilitate offenders. We will ensure that more criminals make amends to victims and communities for the harm they have caused and help them break the destructive cycle of crime. How were criminals caught? Each town or village had a constable‚ but he dealt mainly with peasants who would revolt from time to time and the leaders of the revolts died in prison or were executed by torture that
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