University:
Bradley University
Course:
ENS 110 | Environmental Science
Academic year:

2022
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416

Pages:

1
Author:

Alexa Livingston

What Is the Environment, and What Is an Ecosystem? • Environment is a collection of systems including all living and nonliving things on Earth that sustain all life. • A system is made up of interacting components that produce patterns of behavior over time, like a household. • A car is made up of many components. Each by itself will not get you from one place to another • Only when all parts put together to can use the car to get around • This is called an emergent property of the whole system. • The environment is made up of many natural systems called ecosystems, like a coral reef. • A coral reef is an ecosystem made up of marine organisms and nonliving factors like sunlight and minerals. • The root of the prefix eco- in the words ecosystem, ecology, and economics is the Greek word oikos, which means household

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