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Define each of the terms below IN YOUR OWN WORDS

Environmental Value System:

Entropy:

Equilibrium:

Feedback:

Feedback, negative:

Feedback, positive:

Gaia:

Model:

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1- Environmental Value System or EVS is a worldview that molds the way both individuals and the societies they form perceive and therefore evaluate environmental concerns.

2-Entropy/ the measure of a system's thermal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing useful work.

3-Equilibrium/a state of balance between opposing forces or actions that is either static

4-Feedback/a return of information about a result or the returned portion of a process.

5-Feedback,negative/ is a self-regulatory system in which it feeds back to the input a part of a system's output so as to reverse the direction of change of the output.

6-Feedback,positive/ is the amplification of a body's response to a stimulus.

7-Gaia/ all organisms and their inorganic surroundings on Earth are closely integrated to form a single and self-regulating complex system

8-Model/a physical and/or mathematical and/or conceptual representation of a system of ideas, events or processes.

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