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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 ...
An organism that uses a narrow range of resources with high efficiency. The panda is a specialist who harvests the bamboo that makes up most of its diet.
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Microscopic cylindrical roundworms living in water and soil. Can be parasitic (as with the trichina and the hookworm) or free-living.
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A substance that fosters cancer, an illness characterized by cells that cannot quit dividing in a kind of biological nation-statism.
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Extensive, artificial earth movement that exposes the underlying soils. Also, to nick and weaken a seed coat enough for germination.
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A coevolutionary relationship between species (usually animal species) that benefits one without significantly impacting the other.
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An organisms whose cells lack a nucleus. Roughly synonymous with bacteria, but divided into eubacteria and archaeans. See Eukaryote.
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A more or less permanent body of ice compacted from recrystallized snow that expands or contracts depending on gravity and climate.
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The more or less level sedimentary interval from the shore to the continental slope that leads deeply downward to the ocean floor.
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A cell organelle, once a free bacterium, that holds chlorophyll. Symbiotic with mitochondria, as shown by biologist Lynn Margulis.
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The surface of the oceanic crust 5,000 to 7,000 meters below the ocean surface. Ocean basins take up 30% of the Earth's surface.
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