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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 ...
Lower mountain slopes covered with loose sediment, possibly from runoffs. Example: overlapping alluvial fans rolling along the base of arid peaks.
Industry:Biology
Chemical reactions in the absence of oxygen and often initiated by bacteria or archaeans (bacterialike organisms that live in extreme conditions).
Industry:Biology
The dropping of transported particles out of moving water onto a resting place. Also, a transformation from gas to solid as a result of cooling.
Industry:Biology
A gelatinous extract of brown seaweed used to make a number of products, including toothpaste, beer, various medicines, paper, and frozen foods.
Industry:Biology
A division of the outer whorl (perianth) of a flower (e.g., magnolias, lilies, and tulips) lacking clear differentiation into sepals and petals.
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Often poked fun at as an egg-laying mammal, the platypus sports a remarkable bill that detects its prey buried by generating an electric field.
Industry:Biology
When one organism lives in another to the benefit of both. Examples of the resulting symbiosis include plastids, mitochondria, and chloroplasts.
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Brown or gray dome of air particles and pollutants trapped by an urban heat island above a city. The meteorological equivalent of the Metrodome.
Industry:Biology
A diagram showing the biomass supported at each trophic level of a food web. Primary producers are at the bottom and predators are at the top.
Industry:Biology
A plant that adapts its requirements to climate extremes, like a deciduous tree dropping its leaves in winter and growing them back in spring.
Industry:Biology
