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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 ...
One that exchanges energy, but not matter, between itself and its environment. The Earth is a closed system of finite room and resource.
Industry:Biology
The combination of DNA and the structural proteins (histones) it wraps around in the cell nucleus. Chromosomes are made out of chromatin.
Industry:Biology
Composed mostly of former rocks (like shale and sandstone) whose fragments have been carried a long distance from where they originated.
Industry:Biology
A list of all known elements (substances whose atoms are all of the same type). Some of the heavier elements only exist in laboratories.
Industry:Biology
Metabolic processes that break down tissues and organs--turning protein into energy during a fast, for example. The opposite of Anabolic.
Industry:Biology
The chemical conversion of inorganic compounds found in an autotrophic organism's surroundings into food for it. Compare Photosynthesis.
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Also known as asphalt or tar. Bitumen is a black, oily, viscous material that is a naturally produced from decomposed organic materials.
Industry:Biology
Pioneer plants which grow, flourish, and die in one season. Their seeds often germinate during the following wet season. See Perennials.
Industry:Biology
Cyclic movement of phosphorus from environment to organism and back, starting with phosphate rock dissolved by water into plant roots.
Industry:Biology
An embankment that works as a dike. Levees built to containn floods can actually accelerate floodwaters by narrowing natural channels.
Industry:Biology
