Quick Quiz on System Theory and Ecological Modeling

1.     ____          Science views the universe mainly as “energy” or “material” relationships.

2.     ____          A “system” can be defined as any interconnected set of phenomena and relations.

3.   ____          There are no actual “closed” energetic systems.

4.     ____          When energy remains constant, that means there is no dynamic operation of a system.

5.   ____          Everything in the universe is winding down to a low state of organization.

6.     ____          Open “entities” within an “environment” can exchange information without exchanging energy. 

7.     ____          Reductionist science “explains” by accounting for hierarchies of energy transformation.

8.     ____          Mathematical models may apply to more than one kind of phenomena.

9.     ____          Many scholars embraced system theory because it helped link natural and cultural phenomena.

10. ____          Information theory presents one mode of mathematizing linguistic process.

11. ____          Information theory may also be employed to offer predictive or post-dictive models of behavior.

12. ____          The energy models of physical science are examples of information theory models.