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Science |
A process for producing knowledge methodically and logically. |
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Natural experiment |
Involves observation of events that have already happened |
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Manipulative experiment |
In which some conditions are deliberately altered and all other variables are held constant |
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Open system |
Receives inputs from their surroundings and produce outputs that leave the system |
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Closed system |
Exchange no energy or matter with its surrounding |
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Throughput |
A term used to describe the energy and matter that flows in through and out of a system |
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Positive feedback |
Self perpetuating feedback |
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Negative feedback |
A process that suppresses change |
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Resilient |
Inability to recover from disturbance |
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State shift |
In which conditions do not return to normal |
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Emergent properties |
Characteristics of whole functioning systems that are quantitative or qualitative greater than the sum of the system's parts |
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Paradigm shifts |
Occurs when a majority of scientists except that the old explanation no longer explains the observation very well |
