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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 ...
When two populations become more and more dissimilar, usually as a result of different environmental pressures. The opposite of Convergent Evolution.
Industry:Biology
A horizontal underground stem from which spring shoots, buds, and roots. A potato is a thickened rhizome. Found in ferns, horsetails, and asparagus.
Industry:Biology
Medium to coarse igneous rock congealed from felsic (light-colored) magma roiling under continents. Rich in quartz and potassium feldspar (orthoclase).
Industry:Biology
Able to live in more than one kind of environment, like a plant that flourishes with or without air. Frequent in species that dwell in wetland uplands.
Industry:Biology
The degradation of moist land into a desert. Some desertification is natural, but most is from erosion, climate change (global warming), or overgrazing.
Industry:Biology
Light emitted by chemical reactions within living things (fireflies, glow worms, jellyfish, etc. ). Uses: to communicate, escape predators, attract prey.
Industry:Biology
A phase change from a solid into a gas state without any liquid state first. Example: dry ice turning directly into a vapor. Can also occur in reverse.
Industry:Biology
Fuels from sources cleaner than coal or petroleum products: ethanol, methanol, natural gas, solar, wind, geothermal, biodiesel from vegetable oil, etc.
Industry:Biology
The environmental influence exerted naturally by living organisms: worms that aerate soil, animals that enrich it with manure, trees that throw shade, etc.
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A once-natural springtime thinning in stratospheric ozone over Antarctica, but now enlarged by CFCs and other pollutants into a hole the size of the Moon.
Industry:Biology
