Terms for subject Environment (20059 entries) |
aapasuo | fen | |
aapasuo | Aapa mire | |
aapasuo | fen (Waterlogged, spongy ground containing alkaline decaying vegetation, characterized by reeds, that may develop into peat. It sometimes occurs in the sinkholes of karst region) | |
aarniometsä | primary forest (Forest which originally covered a region before changes in the environment brought about by people) | |
aarniometsä | primary forest | |
Aasia | Asia (The world's largest continent. It occupies the eastern part of the Eurasian landmass and its adjacent islands and is separated from Europe by the Ural Mountains. Asia borders on the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean and Red Seas in the west. It includes the largest peninsulas of Asia Minor, India, Arabia, and Indochina and the island groups of Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ceylon; contains the mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush, Himalayas, Pamirs, Tian Shan, Urals, and Caucasus, the great plateaus of India, Iran and Tibet, vast plains and deserts, and the valleys of many large rivers including the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Indus, Ganges, Tigris and Euphrates) | |
Aasian leijona | Asiatic lion | |
Aasian leijona | Indian lion | |
Aasian metsäkumppanuus | Asia Forest partnership | |
aasianjokipääsky | white-eyed river martin | |
aasiankultakissa | Asiatic golden cat | |
aasiankultakissa | Temminck's golden cat | |
aavikko | desert (A wide, open, comparatively barren tract of land with few forms of life and little rainfall) | |
aavikko | dryland | |
aavikkoheinäsirkka | desert locust | |
aavikkoheinäsirkka | desert locust | |
aavikkoilmasto | desert climate | |
aavikkoilmasto | desert climate (A climate type which is characterized by insufficient moisture to support appreciable plant life; that is, a climate of extreme aridity) | |
aavikkojuoksija | cream-coloured courser | |
aavikkokenguru | bluff-nosed rat-kangaroo |