Now it’s time to draw a system made of nodes and relationships. This will help us see the ‘bigger picture’ so we can choose sustainable solutions.
You’ve seen systems like this before, and you might have drawn maps of them. You might have seen a system like a food web, which looks a bit like this:
This is a map of nodes (living things) and relationships (what eats what).
We have identified the nodes by drawing a circle around then. The lines drawn between the nodes show which nodes have relationships.
Quiz
What types of nodes are in the image? (tick all that apply)
- Animals
- Plants
- People
- Water
- Clouds