Natural Disaster Blog Post By: Jahzaire Sutton

When thinking of the ways that humans have altered and continued to alter its environment, its safe to say that work on improving by the century. For example, we went from having to hunt for our food to now ordering through a drive thru from a fast food restaurant. With creations like that we have created the term sustainability. I say that because we as humans made it work with the bare minimum and look how we developed as a human race with the environment. In ecological terms, it can be measured with noticing the technology advancement in the world. Technology can be considered a system but we have more important systems. Such as the cycles. Like the Water cycle, photosynthesis, life cycle and etc. I would define the systems as, factors of life that help morph our environment that we have today. Now with cycles, you have energy. Energy can be found in all type of different forms such as radiant, chemical, nuclear, electrical and etc. Energy can take various forms, including energy that is stored (potential energy) and the energy of motion (kinetic energy). According to the first law of thermodynamics, energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be converted from one form into another. According to the second law of thermodynamics, in any conversion of energy, some energy is converted into unusable waste energy, and the entropy of the universe is increased. When it comes to organisms, they depend on energy input into them so that they can thrive and survive as a organism. To track the inputs and outputs energy, environmental scientists use systems analysis to calculate inputs to and outputs from a system and its rate of change. When thinking about how natural systems overtime, environmental conditions change. They change in such as temperature and or precipitation. In which can affect the types and numbers of organisms present.