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Systems diagrams

Systems diagrams. Positive Feedback. Feedback that enhances a change in the system and it is destabilized and pushed to a new equilibrium. This feedback may cause the process to speed up until the system collapses, resulting in a "vicious circle". . Example: Positive feedback in a bank account.

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Systems diagrams

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  1. Systems diagrams

  2. Positive Feedback • Feedback that enhances a change in the system and it is destabilized and pushed to a new equilibrium. This feedback may cause the process to speed up until the system collapses, resulting in a "vicious circle".

  3. Example: Positive feedback in a bank account

  4. Human population growth

  5. Melting permafrost and global warming

  6. You try! Warmer global temperatures. Melt more ice and snow. The Earth’s albedo decreases. More energy from the sun is absorbed by the surface of the Earth.

  7. Positive feedback

  8. Production, consumption and human population • You try!

  9. Production, consumption and population

  10. Climate Change.. • Increase in the temperatures can cause more evaporation. Water is a greenhouse gas…

  11. Negative Feedback • Feedback that tends to neutralize or counteract any deviation from equilibrium, returning the system to a stead-state equilibrium.

  12. Negative feedback example

  13. Another example: air conditioner

  14. You try! Increasing global temperatures. Increases evaporation of water. Increases formation of clouds. More light is reflected by the clouds. The temperature cools.

  15. Negative feedback in ecosystems • Predator Prey relationships • Disease • Food supply

  16. Complete the diagram with increase/decrease

  17. Identify Transformations and transfers in the hydrological cycle below:

  18. Which flows will increase from climate change?

  19. Answer:

  20. Complete this example • 1. A small glacier receives an input of 20 units of ice in the form of snowfall each year. As the ice melts, 19 units are lost through run-off, and 2 units through evaporation. • (a) Draw a labeled flow diagram showing these processes and their relationships. [3] • (b) State what would happen to the glacier if these inputs and outputs were to remain constant for several years.

  21. A simplified energy flow diagram for a tropical forest food chain is shown Sketch a simplified energy flow diagram to show how energy flows in a named ecosystem

  22. Local ecosystem energy flow And so on…

  23. Answers the questions about the diagram on the next slide State, giving one reason, what kind of system feedback is illustrated by the descending spiral. [1] (b) Discuss the meaning of the term sustainable development with reference to Figure 2. [2] (c) Evaluate the strengths and limitations of the models shown in Figure 2.

  24. Answers (a) positive feedback because the effects of the problem make the problem worse; [1] (b) traditionally defined as development which meets the needs of the current generation without compromising ability of future generations to meet their own needs;but in this context it suggests development which has a positive role in enhancingthe environment;and is dependent in some way on a healthy population; [2 max] (c) simple, easy to see the connections;shows clearly how actions in one area can have a knock on effect on the original Development;can distinguish between positive and negative actions and consequences; but far too simple, detail of what constitutes sustainable as opposed to inappropriatedevelopment is not clear;exact natures of the causal relationships are not explained; [2 max]

  25. Soil degradation in Madagascar – make a model

  26. Sample Madagaskar model

  27. Madagascar answers.. • protective forest cover removed; • directly by logging/farming/mining/industry/settlement; • soil exposed to rain and easily washed away/eroded; • soil exposed to high temperatures and baked/dried out; • nutrients leached away; • soil loses fertility and can no longer support plants; • soil degraded and useless as a resource for humans; [4 max] • Award [3 max] if no climatic factors are mentioned, or the fact that soil is naturally poor.

  28. Suggest how the differences in the size of comparable storages of the two ecosystems can be explained in terms of their different climates.

  29. answer continued:

  30. Which is in a steady state equilibrium? Why?

  31. The temperate forest is in steady state equilibrium • The flows are all the same size.

  32. Draw a labeled flow diagram showing the flows and storages of inorganic nitrogenthat normally occur within soil. Show on your diagram how these flows provide a linkbetween the storages of dead organic matter and biomass.

  33. Answer:

  34. The diagram below shows the energy flow in a river ecosystem in temperate latitudes. All energy values are kJ m−2 yr−1. The system is in steady state equilibrium, calculate the value of X.

  35. X = 10670 kJ m-2 yr-1

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