What Are the Key Dimensions to Any Organization's Environment

question 53

Multiple Choice

What are the key dimensions to any organization's environment?

• A) criticality, volatility, diffusivity
• B) conformity, criticality, and diffusivity
• C) complexity, diffusivity, and criticality
• D) conformity, criticality, and capacity
• E) complexity, volatility, and capacity

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Definitions:

Heterotrophic

Organisms that obtain their energy by consuming other living or dead organisms.

Nonliving Environment

Refers to the abiotic components of an ecosystem, including sunlight, temperature, wind, water, and minerals.

Food Webs

Complex networks of who eats whom in an ecosystem, illustrating the flow of energy and nutrients across multiple trophic levels.

Trophic Level

A level in an ecosystem's food web characterized by organisms that share the same step in energy flow, such as primary producers or primary consumers.