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| Terms for subject Environment (21514 entries) |
| cadena alimentaria | food chain (A sequence of organisms on successive trophic levels within a community, through which energy is transferred by feeding; energy enters the food chain during fixation by primary producers (mainly green plants) and passes to the herbivores (primary consumers) and then to the carnivores (secondary and tertiary consumers)) | |
| cadena alimentaria | food chain | |
| cadena alimentaria | trophic chain | |
| cadena de destrucción catalítica | catalytic destruction | |
| cadena de destrucción catalítica | catalytic destruction chain | |
| cadena de destrucción catalítica | catalytic destruction cycle | |
| cadena productora de madera | timber producing chain (All interrelated steps of the lumber manufacturing process including tree felling, the removal of tops, branches and bark, the piling and sawing of logs, and the transportation and loading of finished boards or other products) | |
| cadena productora de madera | timber producing chain | |
| cadena rascadora | chain-and-flight collecting mechanism | |
| cadena trófica | food chain | |
| cadena trófica | trophic chain | |
| cadmio | cadmium (One of the toxic heavy metal which has caused deaths and permanent illnesses in a series of major pollution incidents around the world. Cadmium has no useful biological purpose. However, it has wide industrial applications. It has been used for decades in metal plating to prevent corrosion, in rechargeable batteries and as a pigment in certain plastics and paints. Special care is taken in the industrial smelting of ores and subsequent handling of cadmium, because occupational exposure is known to have caused heart, chest and kidney disorders. Environmental health problems have come from exposure to various sources of pollution, Cd) | |
| cafetero de Kentucky | Kentucky coffee-tree | |
| caída de ramas | windfall (1. Falling of old trees in a forest caused by a storm or strong wind. It plays an important role in the spontaneous regeneration of forest ecosystems. 2. A plot of land covered with trees blown down by the wind) | |
| caída de ramas (por el viento) | windfall | |
| caimán americano | American crocodile | |
| caimán de Cuba | Cuban crocodile | |
| caimán de hocico ancho | broad-nosed caiman | |
| caimán de hocico ancho | broad-snouted caiman | |
| caimán de Morelet | Morelet's crocodile |