Which of the Following Is an Application of the First

question 23

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an application of the first law of thermodynamics?

• A) The level of entropy increases as time passes.
• B) Living organisms represent an exception to the laws of energy.
• C) The quantity of energy does not increase or decrease in the universe.
• D) Fungi and plants do not make their own energy but derive it from somewhere else.
• E) The amount of energy found in the compounds on one side of an equation is equal to that on the other side.

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Definitions:

Teleological View

A perspective that interprets actions or events in terms of their purpose or goal rather than their cause.

Mechanistic

Pertaining to a viewpoint or theory that likens complex systems to mechanical objects, assuming all phenomena result from physical forces and can be explained by the laws of physics.

Kant's Two Worlds

Refers to Immanuel Kant's distinction between the phenomenal world (which we can know through senses) and the noumenal world (the thing in itself, which we cannot directly know).

World of Nature

The physical universe and all its natural processes and phenomena, excluding human creations and interventions.