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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.
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A soft sedimentary rock composed of feldspar and weathered quartz grains. Porous sandstone layers often hold water in aquifers.
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Energy (usually heat) dissipates in any closed system (entropy). This is why trophic levels in a food web narrow as they rise.
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A gradual nutrient enrichment that increases organic matter production, as with a lake that absorbs waves of nutrient runoffs.
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Volcanically raised islands that arc near subduction zones where one continental plate rides over another. See Plate Tectonics.
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A large formation of ancient (Precambrian) igneous and metamorphic rock that constitutes the core material of the continents.
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The evolution of similar characteristics in widely separated populations. Wings in unrelated species of birds are an example.
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Single-celled, shell-encased, microscopic protozoa found in all marine environments. Remains of their shells produces chalk.
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A monomer (a chemical link in chains called polymers) composed of a sugar, a phosphate group, and a ringlike organic base.
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A green crop stored in a silo to moisten it. Usually corn, but also grass, sorghum, legumes, and sunflowers, among others.
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