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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 ...
A temperature rise that threatens an ecosystem, particularly one in which organisms breed or give birth.
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A solid, rubbery, waxy substance often found in shale. Under pressure it turns into a tarry hydrocarbon.
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Grass-like plant that is adapted to grow in moist habitats. John Keats saw some withered from the lake.
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The hypothesis that industrializing nations exhibit death rate declines followed by birth rate declines.
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The growth and decline of a population. Also a geology term for land leveling by deposition and erosion.
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Uninterrupted parallel flows of liquid, as with blood flowing smoothly through the circulatory system.
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Accumulation of calcium carbonate in upper soil layers. Frequent in semi-arid areas and in grasslands.
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Where one continental plate is pushed under another into the asthenosphere below. See Plate Tectonics.
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The horizontal movement of heat energy. A warm breeze through a relatively cool orchard, for instance.
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A chargless particle in the nucleus of an atom. Neutrons and protons make up most of the atom's mass.
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