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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 ...
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted into another form. Sunlight into tissue; motion into electricity.
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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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The study of statistical distributions of large groups of organisms or species to see why the distribution patterns vary.
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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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Haikai Tane's term for a hypothesized evolution of ecosystems, some changing in response to human-caused planetary changes.
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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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Volcanically raised islands that arc near subduction zones where one continental plate rides over another. See Plate Tectonics.
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Nutritional elements (e. G. , copper, boron, manganese) required by a plant or animal in small quantities. See Macronutrient.
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A coarse, metamorphosed, foliated (laminated) rock in which feldspars and quartz, sometimes hornblende and mica, run in bands.
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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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