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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 expression of two or more of a gene's alleles (varieties) in a population. Human hair and skin color are polymorphous.
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Organic compound composed primarily of hydrogen and carbon atoms. Petroleum, natural gas, coal, and methane are examples.
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Fast or even explosive erosion forced by air bubbles carried by a rapidly flowing liquid. Ruins its share of water pumps.
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The temperature at which water vapor from a saturated air mass turns into liquid. Below freezing, called a frost point.
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A high-pressure system that spirals outward clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern.
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted into another form. Sunlight into tissue; motion into electricity.
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A high-pressure system that spirals outward clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern.
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A pollen-generating stalk at the base of a flower's petals. Flowers typically have six of them, just to make certain.
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The number of diverse species occupying a particular area. A sample with 50 species is richer than a sample with 5.
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Reducible by bacteria as opposed to something that remains in the environment (plastic, certain inustrial wastes).
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