is a rough measure of the entire harmful environmental impacts of individuals, cities, and countries on Earth's natural resources, ecosystem services, and life-support systems. is the harmful environmental and health costs of producing and using a good that is included in the market price. is an example of this loop. A thermostat in a house, which uses the information it gathers (temperature in the house) to turn the heat (or AC ) on or off depending on that temperature. A _. is any set of components that function and interact in some regular way. According to whenever energy is converted from one form to another in a physical or chemical change, but no energy is created or destroyed. In any system there are three key components. One is which can be matter, energy, and information within the system. A cross section view of the horizons of the soil is called a makes up 78% of the volume of the atmosphere and is a crucial component of proteins, many vitamins, and DNA Plants capture suntight, carbon dioxide, and water to make glucose for energy by the process of are consumers that get their nutrients by breaking down the wastes of remains of plants and animals. .