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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 inorganic, crystalline solid that makes up rocks. Over 2,000 varieties have been discovered.
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A group of organisms that includes their most recent common ancestor and all of their descendants.
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A similarity shared by descendants of a common ancestor. We walk upright; so did early hominids.
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A highly toxic chlorinated hydrocarbon used in herbicides and produced by industrial pollution.
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A measure of similarity between the plants and animals of two different ecological communities.
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In flowering plants, the enclosure around the seed-making ovules. The ovary becomes the fruit.
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Genetic variability found in a population due to the genetic combinations of its individuals.
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A woody vine that climbs on trees to spread its leaves above the canopy. Used to make rattan.
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Ice formation on exposed surfaces due to atmospheric cooling and a relative humidity of 100%.
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Heat energy from the Earth's interior. Geysers and volcanos are naturally occuring examples.
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