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| Terms for subject Environment (5171 entries) |
| car tyre (A rubber ring placed over the rim of a wheel of a road vehicle to provide traction and reduce road shocks, especially a hollow inflated ring consisting of a reinforced outer casing enclosing an inner tube) | bildekk | |
| carbohydrate (Any of the group of organic compounds composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, including sugars, starches and celluloses) | karbohydrat | |
| carbon (A nonmetallic element existing in the three crystalline forms: graphite, diamond and buckminsterfullerene: occurring in carbon dioxide, coal, oil and all organic compounds) | karbon | |
| carbon cycle (The cycle of carbon in the biosphere, in which plants convert carbon dioxide to organic compounds that are consumed by plants and animals, and the carbon is returned to the biosphere in inorganic form by processes of respiration and decay) | karbonkretsløp | |
| carbon dioxide (A colourless gas with a faint tingling smell and taste. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is the source of carbon for plants. As carbon dioxide is heavier than air and does not support combustion, it is used in fire extinguishers. It is a normal constituent of the atmosphere, relatively innocuous in itself but playing an important role in the greenhouse effect. It is produced during the combustion of fossil fuels when the carbon content of the fuels reacts with the oxygen during combustion. It is also produced when living organisms respire. It is essential for plant nutrition and in the ocean phytoplankton is capable of absorbing and releasing large quantities of the gas, CO2) | karbondioksid | |
| carbon dioxide tax (Compulsory charges levied on fuels to reduce the output of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is a colourless and odourless gas substance that is incombustible) | karbondioksidavgift | |
| carbon monoxide (Colorless, odourless, tasteless, non-corrosive, highly poisonous gas of about the same density as that of air. Very flammable, burning in air with bright blue flame. Although each molecule of CO has one carbon atom and one oxygen atom, it has a shape similar to that of an oxygen molecule (two atoms of oxygen), which is important with regard to it's lethality, CO) | karbonmonoksid | |
| carbonate (A salt or ester of carbonic acid) | karbonat | |
| carcass disposal (The disposal of slaughtered animals, other dead animal bodies and animal body parts after removal of the offal products) | kadaverdestruksjon | |
| carcinogen (A substance that causes cancer in humans and animals) | kreftfremkallende stoff | |
| carcinogenicity (The ability or tendency of a substance or physical agent to cause or produce cancer) | kreftfremkallende egenskap | |
| carcinogenicity test (Test for assessing if a chemical or physical agent increases the risk of cancer. The three major ways of testing for carcinogens are animals tests, epidemiological studies and bacterial tests) | karsinogenitetsprøving | |
| cardiology (The study of the heart) | kardiologi | |
| cardiovascular disease | hjerte-karsykdom | |
| cardiovascular system (Those structures, including the heart and blood vessels, which provide channels for the flow of blood) | hjerte-karsystem | |
| Caribbean Area (A geographical region bordered on the south by South America and Panama, and on the west by Central America, and consisting of the West Indian, and nearby, islands and the Caribbean Sea, a part of the western Atlantic Ocean) | Karibien | |
| carnivore (An animal that eats meat) | kjøtteter | |
| carry-over effect (Effect caused by the successive passages of polluting substances through the different organisms of a food chain) | overføringseffekt | |
| cartography (The making of maps and charts for the purpose of visualizing spatial distributions over various areas of the earth) | kartografi | |
| cash crop (Crops that are grown for sale in the town markets or for export. They include coffee, cocoa, sugar, vegetables, peanuts and non-foods, like tobacco and cotton. Huge areas of countries in the developing world have been turned over to cash crops. Those countries with no mineral or oil resources depend on cash crops for foreign money, so that they can import materials do develop roads, for construction, or to buy Western consumer goods and, indeed, food. However, critics argue that cash crops are planted on land that would otherwise be used to grow food for the local community and say this is a cause of world famine. Cash crops, such as peanuts, can ruin the land if it is not left fallow after six years of harvests. Moreover, if the best agricultural land is used for cash crops, local farmers are forced to use marginal land to grow food for local consumption, and this has a further dramatic effect on the environment) | nytteplante |