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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 ...
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
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
The surface of the oceanic crust 5,000 to 7,000 meters below the ocean surface. Ocean basins take up 30% of the Earth's surface.
Industry:Biology
Small, leafy, spore-producing plants without true roots or water-conducting plumbing. About 9,500 species. They prefer dark, moist locations.
Industry:Biology
Tectonic mountain-building. They rise as continental plates smash together (case in point: the Pacific coast and its long range of mountains).
Industry:Biology
A pollutant dumped directly into the air. (Photochemical smog is a secondary air pollutant: it is chemically derived from primary pollution. )
Industry:Biology
An open, coarsely soiled, poorly drained patch of land, usually acidic, supporting shrubs and small trees; similar to a moor, but less moist.
Industry:Biology
A mineral silicate whose hexagonal arrangements of atoms give it perfect cleavage (it breaks in sheets instead of fracturing or crumbling).
Industry:Biology
Trees that keep their foliage throughout the year. Needle-shaped leaves retain moisture with less loss to transpiration. Compare Deciduous.
Industry:Biology
Plankton that do not produce their own food, as phytoplankton do. In size they fall between phytoplankton and larger organisms like fish.
Industry:Biology
