Competency 28: Concepts & Processes in Science Flashcards
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Open System
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Capable of exchanging matter, energy, and info with its surrounding environment.
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Closed System
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Not capable of exchanging matter, energy or info with outside environment & is self-contained. Outside events have no influence on what occurs in this system.
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Dynamic Systems
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Systems that have variable relations with their surroundings.
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Natural Systems
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Include ecosystems, solar system, water cycle, and living organisms.
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Human-Made Systems
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Systems that are manmade, such as machines.
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Physical or thermodynamic Systems
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Systems based solely on matter & energy.
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Living Systems
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Type of system can either be part of (gene networks) or a whole living organism, members of a group of organisms that interact with other members. Types of natural systems.
