Glossary C

The Environmental Glossary. Letter C +++ Popular Articles: 'Community', 'Contamination', 'Condition'

Cultivation may refer to the cultivation of plants or cultivation of the soil or the cultivation of livestock
Cultivation in the environmental context refers to the process of preparing and managing land for the purpose of growing crops, plants, or other agricultural products. It involves various practices and techniques aimed at optimizing soil fertility, water management, pest control, and overall crop productivity.

Deutsch: Kultivator / Español: Cultivador / Português: Cultivador / Français: Cultivateur / Italiano: Coltivatore

Cultivator in the environmental context refers to both a person and a tool associated with land preparation and sustainable agricultural practices. As a person, a cultivator is someone actively engaged in growing crops, managing soil, and maintaining ecosystems. As a tool, a cultivator is an agricultural implement used to prepare soil, manage weeds, and promote healthy crop growth.

A Cultural Eutrophication is Increasing rate at which water bodies "die" by Pollution from human activities.

Deutsch: Kultur / Español: Cultura / Português: Cultura / Français: Culture / Italiano: Cultura /

A Culture is In microbiology, a population of microorganisms in a growth medium or the act of growing Bacteria in media for identification.

Cultures and Stocks are Infectious agents and associated Biologicals including cultures from medical and pathological laboratories; Cultures and Stocks of infectious agents from research and industrial laboratories; waste from the production of biologicals; discarded live and attenuated vaccines; and culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix cultures.

A culvert is man-made construction that diverts the natural flow of water.

A cumulative distribution is a means of representing the variation of some attribute by giving running totals of the resource with attribute values less than or equal to a specified series of values.

- Cumulative Ecological Risk Assessment : A Cumulative Ecological Risk Assessment is Consideration of the total ecological risk from multiple stressors to a given eco-zone.

A Cumulative Exposure is the sum of exposures of an Organism to a Pollutant over a period of time.

A Cumulative Working Level Months (CWLM) is the sum of lifetime Exposure to radon working levels expressed in total working