- Industry: Biology
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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
The surface of the oceanic crust 5,000 to 7,000 meters below the ocean surface. Ocean basins take up 30% of the Earth's surface.
Industry:Biology
Small, leafy, spore-producing plants without true roots or water-conducting plumbing. About 9,500 species. They prefer dark, moist locations.
Industry:Biology
Tectonic mountain-building. They rise as continental plates smash together (case in point: the Pacific coast and its long range of mountains).
Industry:Biology
A 1-5 scale of soil loss tolerance: the average maximum soil loss, in tons per acre per year, that still allows the current production level.
Industry:Biology
The gravity-driven (not water- or wind-driven) movement of rock or soil downslope. Tends to occur at higher elevations. Example: a landslide.
Industry:Biology
Plant cells that specialize in making new tissue. Different sorts of meristem make the various tissues (some for bark, some for leaves, etc. ).
Industry:Biology
The buoyancy of the Earth's crust (lithosphere) upon the asthenosphere. For a segment of crust, buoyancy depends on its thickness and density.
Industry:Biology
A common fungal disease that wilts seedlings and rots stems. It can often be avoided by holding off on mulching until the seeds have sprouted.
Industry:Biology
Accidental harvest of one organism instead of another, like the crustaceans caught in shrimp trawls and the dolphins trapped instead of tuna.
Industry:Biology
Interactions between species that impact how both evolve. Examples: bees and plants needing pollination; the cleaner fish and the whale shark.
Industry:Biology
