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K.01 - Natural resources/Raw materials
K.02 - Fauna/Animals
K.03 - Flora/Plants
K.04 - Climate
K.05 - Earth/Physical geography
K.06 - Outer space
K.07 - Environment/Ecology
K.08 - Environmental protection

K.01 - Natural resources/Raw materials ↑ top

K.01.01 Natural resources/Raw materials, general

Asbestos 🔎
Bauxite 🔎
Diamonds 🔎
Drinking water 🔎
Iron ore 🔎
Light metals 🔎
Lime 🔎
Marine resources 🔎
Metals 🔎
Mineral raw materials 🔎
Mineral resources 🔎
Natural resources 🔎
Nitrates 🔎
Non-renewable resources 🔎
Nonferrous metals 🔎
Nonmetallic minerals 🔎
Ores 🔎
Phosphates 🔎
Precious metals 🔎
Precious stones 🔎
Raw materials 🔎
Raw materials deposits 🔎
Raw materials reserves 🔎
Renewable resources 🔎
Salt (mineral) 🔎
Uranium 🔎
Water 🔎

K.01.02 Chemical elements and compounds

Antimony 🔎
Cadmium 🔎
Calcium 🔎
Carbon (chemical element) 🔎
Carbon dioxide 🔎
Chemical compounds 🔎
Chemical elements 🔎
Chlorinated hydrocarbons 🔎
Chromium 🔎
Cobalt 🔎
Copper 🔎
Dioxin 🔎
Fluorochlorohydrocarbons 🔎
Gold 🔎
Hydrogen 🔎
Iron (chemical element) 🔎
Lead 🔎
Lithium 🔎
Magnesium 🔎
Manganese 🔎
Mercury (metal) 🔎
Nickel 🔎
Nitrates 🔎
Nitric oxides 🔎
Nitrogen 🔎
Oxygen 🔎
Ozone 🔎
Phosphorus 🔎
Platinum 🔎
Plutonium 🔎
Silicon 🔎
Silver 🔎
Sulphur 🔎
Sulphur dioxide 🔎
Tin 🔎
Titanium 🔎
Tungsten 🔎
Uranium 🔎
Vanadium 🔎
Zinc 🔎

K.01.03 Energy

Bioenergy 🔎
Energy 🔎
Energy resources 🔎
Geothermal energy 🔎
Nuclear energy 🔎
Renewable energy sources 🔎
Solar energy 🔎
Water power 🔎
Wind power 🔎

K.01.04 Fuel types

Biological fuels 🔎
Charcoal 🔎
Coal 🔎
Fossil fuels 🔎
Fuel types 🔎
Gas fuels 🔎
Lignite 🔎
Natural gas 🔎
Petroleum 🔎

K.02 - Fauna/Animals ↑ top

Animals 🔎
Birds 🔎
Buffaloes 🔎
Camels 🔎
Cattle 🔎
Corals 🔎
Crustacea 🔎
Cuttle fish 🔎
Domestic animals 🔎
Donkeys 🔎
Elephants 🔎
Evolutionary species 🔎
Fauna 🔎
Fish 🔎
Game (animals) 🔎
Goats 🔎
Horses 🔎
Insects 🔎
Locusts 🔎
Mammals 🔎
Marine animals 🔎
Pests/vermin 🔎
Pigs 🔎
Predatory animals 🔎
Reptiles 🔎
Rodents 🔎
Sea fish 🔎
Sheep 🔎
Small animals 🔎
Tortoises 🔎
Tsetse flies 🔎
Tuna fish 🔎
Whales 🔎

K.03 - Flora/Plants ↑ top

Algae 🔎
Bamboo 🔎
Bananas 🔎
Beans 🔎
Cereals 🔎
Cocoa 🔎
Coconuts 🔎
Coffee 🔎
Corn 🔎
Cotton 🔎
Eucalyptus 🔎
Evolutionary species 🔎
Fibrous plants 🔎
Flora 🔎
Flowers 🔎
Forests 🔎
Grass 🔎
Manioc 🔎
Medicinal plants 🔎
Mushrooms (food) 🔎
Oil producing plants 🔎
Oil seeds 🔎
Olives 🔎
Onions 🔎
Palms 🔎
Peanuts 🔎
Pineapples 🔎
Plants 🔎
Poppies 🔎
Potatoes 🔎
Rice 🔎
Sea vegetation 🔎
Sugar beet 🔎
Sugar cane 🔎
Sunflowers 🔎
Sweet potatoes 🔎
Tea 🔎
Tomatoes 🔎
Tree population 🔎
Trees 🔎
Useful plants 🔎
Vegetation 🔎
Vegetation zones 🔎
Wheat 🔎

K.04 - Climate ↑ top

K.04.01 Climate, general

Climate 🔎
Climate change 🔎
Climate policy 🔎
Climate protection 🔎
Greenhouse effect 🔎
Greenhouse gases 🔎
Meteorology 🔎
Temperature 🔎
Weather 🔎
Weather satellites 🔎

K.04.02 Climatic zones/Climatic periods

Arid zones 🔎
Climatic zones 🔎
Dry season 🔎
Frigid zones 🔎
Humid zones 🔎
Polar regions 🔎
Rainy season 🔎
Seasons/climatic periods 🔎
Semiarid zones 🔎
Subtropical zones 🔎
Temperate season 🔎
Tropics 🔎

K.04.03 Air, Wind, Precipitation

Air 🔎
Air temperature 🔎
Clouds 🔎
Cyclones 🔎
Humidity 🔎
Monsoons 🔎
Precipitation 🔎
Storms 🔎
Wind 🔎

K.05 - Earth/Physical geography ↑ top

K.05.01 Earth, general

Airspace 🔎
Continents 🔎
Earth 🔎
Earth surface 🔎
Geographical data 🔎
Geographical space 🔎
Geological formations 🔎
Geological/geographical factors 🔎
Interior of the earth 🔎
Temperature of the earth 🔎
World 🔎

K.05.02 Surface formations of the earth

Archipelagoes 🔎
Coastal mountains 🔎
Coasts/coastal areas 🔎
Earth surface 🔎
Geographical reliefs 🔎
Glaciers 🔎
Gulfs/bays 🔎
High mountain range 🔎
Inland seas 🔎
Inland waters 🔎
Islands 🔎
Lakes 🔎
Mountains 🔎
Plains 🔎
Plateaus 🔎
River beds 🔎
River courses 🔎
Rivers 🔎
Straits 🔎
Uplands 🔎
Valleys 🔎
Volcanoes 🔎

K.05.03 Forms of landscape

Arable land 🔎
Arid areas 🔎
Cultivated landscapes 🔎
Deserts 🔎
Forest areas 🔎
Forests 🔎
Forms of landscape 🔎
Inland waters 🔎
National parks 🔎
Natural landscapes 🔎
Oases 🔎
Pastures 🔎
Savannah 🔎
Steppes 🔎
Tropical rain forests 🔎
Wetlands 🔎

K.05.04 Inland waters/Seas

Coastal waters 🔎
Continental shelf (geographic) 🔎
Deep sea 🔎
Deep seabed 🔎
Estuaries 🔎
Flooding 🔎
Fresh water 🔎
Groundwater 🔎
Gulfs/bays 🔎
Inland seas 🔎
Inland waters 🔎
Lakes 🔎
Oceans 🔎
River beds 🔎
Rivers 🔎
Salt lakes 🔎
Sea water/salt water 🔎
Seabed 🔎
Seabed subsoil 🔎
Seas 🔎
Straits 🔎
Tidal waves 🔎
Tides 🔎
Transnational waters 🔎
Transport of water 🔎
Water consumption 🔎
Water demand 🔎
Water resources 🔎
Water storage 🔎
Water supply 🔎
Water temperature 🔎

K.05.05 Topography, regions, cardinal points

East 🔎
Equator/equatorial zones 🔎
Geographical distribution 🔎
Geographical position/location 🔎
North 🔎
North pole 🔎
Northeast 🔎
Northern hemisphere 🔎
Northwest 🔎
Parts of a country 🔎
South 🔎
South pole 🔎
Southeast 🔎
Southern hemisphere 🔎
Southwest 🔎
Topographic data 🔎
West 🔎

K.06 - Outer space ↑ top

K.06.01 Outer space, general

Astronomical units 🔎
Atmosphere 🔎
Lower atmosphere 🔎
Outer space 🔎
Ozone layer 🔎
Terrestrial space 🔎
Upper atmosphere 🔎

K.06.02 Planets/Celestial bodies

Earth (planet) 🔎
Jupiter 🔎
Mars 🔎
Mercury 🔎
Moon 🔎
Planets/celestial bodies 🔎
Saturn 🔎
Sun 🔎
Venus 🔎

K.07 - Environment/Ecology ↑ top

K.07.01 Environment/Ecology, general

Air quality 🔎
Balance of ecological impacts 🔎
Biodiversity 🔎
Catastrophes 🔎
Ecological balance 🔎
Ecological catastrophes 🔎
Ecological security 🔎
Ecological systems 🔎
Environment/ecology 🔎
Environmental assets 🔎
Environmental damage 🔎
Environmental factors 🔎
Environmental hazards 🔎
Environmental impact 🔎
Environmental technology 🔎
Environmental tolerance 🔎
Global challenges 🔎
Nature 🔎
Nature reserves 🔎
Physical living conditions 🔎
Quality of the environment 🔎
Regeneration (environment) 🔎
Toxicity 🔎
Utilization of the environment 🔎
Water quality 🔎

K.07.02 Natural occurences

Cyclones 🔎
Drought 🔎
Earthquakes 🔎
Fire 🔎
Flooding 🔎
Natural catastrophes 🔎
Natural occurrences 🔎
Storms 🔎
Tidal waves 🔎
Volcanic eruptions 🔎

K.07.03 Environmental damage, general

Behaviour causing environmental damage 🔎
Causes of environmental damage 🔎
Changes in the ecological balance 🔎
Climate change 🔎
Consequences of environmental damage 🔎
Damage to human health 🔎
Dangerous products 🔎
Decrease/change in vegetation 🔎
Decrease/illness in animal population 🔎
Endangered species 🔎
Environmental damage perpetrators 🔎
Environmental impact 🔎
Environmental warfare 🔎
Global warming 🔎
Industrial pollution 🔎
Long-term damage 🔎
Noise pollution 🔎
Nuclear winter 🔎
Pesticides 🔎
Radiation damage 🔎
Radioactive contamination 🔎
Radioactive fallout 🔎
Reduction of emissions 🔎
Toxins/pollutants 🔎
Wildlife exploitation 🔎

K.07.04 Environmental damage to the soil

Artificial landscape changes 🔎
Chemical waste 🔎
Damage to food/feedstuff 🔎
Deforestation 🔎
Desertification 🔎
Destruction of forests 🔎
Dumping (waste disposal) 🔎
Forest damage 🔎
Heavy metal pollution 🔎
Oil pollution 🔎
Overexploitation 🔎
Overfertilization 🔎
Radioactive waste 🔎
Silting 🔎
Soil destruction or contamination 🔎
Soil erosion 🔎
Toxic waste 🔎
Waste 🔎

K.07.05 Environmental damage to the air

Acid rain 🔎
Air pollution 🔎
Drought 🔎
Pollutant emission 🔎
Pollution of higher atmosphere 🔎
Smog 🔎
Waste gases 🔎

K.07.06 Environmental damage to the water

Changes in water supply/water level 🔎
Heavy metal pollution 🔎
Increase in water temperature 🔎
Marine pollution 🔎
Oil pollution 🔎
Overfishing 🔎
Pesticides 🔎
Pollutant emission 🔎
Waste water 🔎
Water pollution 🔎

K.08 - Environmental protection ↑ top

K.08.01 Environmental protection, general

Animal protection 🔎
Climate protection 🔎
Coast protection/river regulation 🔎
Ecological farming 🔎
Environmental controls 🔎
Environmental management 🔎
Environmental protection 🔎
Forest conservation and afforestation 🔎
Game management 🔎
Global commons 🔎
International environmental protection 🔎
Landscape protection/conservation 🔎
National environmental protection 🔎
Natural preserves 🔎
Natural resources management 🔎
Nature reserves 🔎
Nature/wildlife conservation 🔎
Plant protection 🔎
Protection of species 🔎
Regional environmental protection 🔎
Resource protection 🔎
Water protection 🔎

K.08.02 Environmental policy

Ecological movements 🔎
Environmental consciousness 🔎
Environmental debates 🔎
Environmental education 🔎
Environmental ethics 🔎
Environmental planning 🔎
Environmental policy 🔎
Environmental standards 🔎
International environment policy cooperation 🔎
International environmental policy 🔎
Ministries of environmental affairs 🔎
Polluter pays principle (environmental policy) 🔎
Prevention principle (environmental policy) 🔎
Public burden principle (environmental policy) 🔎

K.08.03 Legal, financial and economic aspects of environmental protection

Cross-border environmental damage 🔎
Economic problems of environmental protection 🔎
Emission rights (environmental assets) 🔎
Emissions trading 🔎
Environmental damage 🔎
Environmental law 🔎
Environmental protection charges 🔎
International environmental agreements 🔎
Legal problems of environmental protection 🔎
Utilization of the environment 🔎

K.08.04 Environmental protection technology/protection measures

CBRN protection 🔎
Decontamination 🔎
Disposal 🔎
Ecological production processes 🔎
Ecological products 🔎
Environmental industry 🔎
Environmental protection measures 🔎
Environmental restoration 🔎
Environmental technology 🔎
Final storage of radioactive waste 🔎
Interim storage of radioactive waste 🔎
Noise protection 🔎
Radiation protection 🔎
Sewage systems 🔎
Sewage/purification plants 🔎
Waste disposal 🔎
Waste gas cleaning 🔎
Waste water sewage 🔎