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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 ...
A green, sunlight-capturing pigment in plants and some bacteria. See Photosynthesis.
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Hydrocarbon gasses that accumulate in rocks of marine sediment. Roughly 80% methane.
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Chemical weathering in which hydrogen ions from water alter a mineral's composition.
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A reversing seasonal wind often bearing heavy rainfall. Common near the Indian Ocean.
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A relationship between species that benefits both. Can be symbiotic or nonsymbiotic.
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Tourism that makes use of the ecological attributes of a place (e. G. , bird-watching).
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Creating offspring by fusing gametes (sex cells). Contrast with Asexual Reproduction.
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Change in the structure of a gene or chromosome due to a biochemical replication error.
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The weighted average of the masses of naturally occurring isotopes of a given element.
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The root of a plant embryo; the first part of a seedling to emerge during germination.
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