- Branche: Biology
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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 ...
Plants without leaves, stems, or roots, like duckweed, liverworts, and hornworts.
Industry:Biology
Organisms that are able to live in a dry environment with little available water.
Industry:Biology
A small tributary stopped by levees (embankments) from joining the main channel.
Industry:Biology
A watery network of twisting, sediment-bearing channels. Found atop alluvial fans.
Industry:Biology
A cone-bearing tree. Coniferous vegetation occupies the middle and high latitudes.
Industry:Biology
Sugars composed of monosaccharides (simple sugars). Examples: sucrose and lactose.
Industry:Biology
Flat tropical or subtropical grassland with occasional shrubs, herbs, and trees.
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Diffuse pollution whose source is difficult to determine (like polluted runoff).
Industry:Biology
An ashy cloud of volcanic gas that churns downslope burning whatever it touches.
Industry:Biology
Pretentious term for "how many things can live in one place without using it up. "
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