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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 (usually heat) dissipates in any closed system (entropy). This is why trophic levels in a food web narrow as they rise.
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Cyclic movement of phosphorus from environment to organism and back, starting with phosphate rock dissolved by water into plant roots.
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The commonly accepted evolutionary hypothesis that all humans emigrated from Africa, a continent that hosted several hominid species.
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A rock congealed from molten material beneath (intrusive) or at (extrusive) the Earth's surface. Granite is an intrusive igneous rock.
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One that exchanges energy, but not matter, between itself and its environment. The Earth is a closed system of finite room and resource.
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The combination of DNA and the structural proteins (histones) it wraps around in the cell nucleus. Chromosomes are made out of chromatin.
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A list of all known elements (substances whose atoms are all of the same type). Some of the heavier elements only exist in laboratories.
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Metabolic processes that break down tissues and organs--turning protein into energy during a fast, for example. The opposite of Anabolic.
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The ability to control mineral and salt concentration in the blood. Some fish do this to help them move among waters that vary in salinity.
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Network of tubes and sacs involved with making protein (with ribosomes) and steroids and with storing calcium and glycogen (stored sugar).
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