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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 ...
A classification category for a group of organisms (Cetaceans, Mammalia, Protista, etc. ).
Industry:Biology
Altering a stream by straightening, diverting, or dredging, usually to make it run faster.
Industry:Biology
A rootlike outgrowth that attaches a plant (hornworts, liverworts, mosses) to the ground.
Industry:Biology
A zygote (fertilized egg) whose cells have divided prior to its developing into a foetus.
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The daytime movement of air from water to land down a pressure gradient. See Land Breeze.
Industry:Biology
The inorganic, crystalline solid that makes up rocks. Over 2,000 varieties have been discovered.
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Heat energy from the Earth's interior. Geysers and volcanos are naturally occuring examples.
Industry:Biology
A reversible physical change in an adapting organism in response to environmental pressures.
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Genetic variability found in a population due to the genetic combinations of its individuals.
Industry:Biology
No two species in an ecosystem can permanently fill the same niche or use the same resources.
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