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| 7965283173 | Average residence time | The time it takes for a given part of the total reservoir of a particular material to be cycled through the system | 0 | |
| 7965283174 | Biosphere | part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere | 1 | |
| 7965283175 | Biota | Term used to refer to all living things | 2 | |
| 7965283176 | closed system | no such movements take place | 3 | |
| 7965283177 | Doubling time | Time necessary for the quantity being measured to double | 4 | |
| 7965283178 | Ecosystem | A community of organisms and its local nonliving environment in which matter cycles and energy flows | 5 | |
| 7965283179 | Environmental Unity | Means that it's impossible to change only one thing; everything affects everything else | 6 | |
| 7965283180 | exponential growth | A particularly important example of positive feedback | 7 | |
| 7965283181 | Feedback | When the output of the system also serves as an input and leads to further changes in the system | 8 | |
| 7965283182 | Gaia Hypothesis | The hypothesis states that life manipulates the environment for the maintenance of life | 9 | |
| 7965283183 | Lag time | The time between a stimulus and the response of a system | 10 | |
| 7965283184 | negative feedback | Self regulating, or stabilizing; it usually keeps a system in a relatively constant condition | 11 | |
| 7965283185 | Open system | Not generally contained within boundaries, and some energy or material moves into or out the system | 12 | |
| 7965283186 | overshoot and collapse | the result of long lag times or delays from exponential growth | 13 | |
| 7965283187 | positive feedback | Occurs when an increase in output leads to a further increase in the output | 14 | |
| 7965283188 | Steady state | Where the input into a system is equal to the output | 15 | |
| 7965283189 | System | A set of components or parts that function together to act as a whole | 16 | |
| 7965283190 | Uniformitarianism | The principle that mechanisms of change are constant over time | 17 |
