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CAA

Cold Air Advection

CAFO

Concentrated animal feeding operation.

Calcareous

Refers to substances containing or composed of calcium carbonate.

Capital

The existing stock of productive resources, such as machines and buildings, that have been produced.

Capital Gain

The increase in the value of an asset between the time it is purchased and the time it is sold.

Capital Intensive

Production methods with a high quantity of capital per worker.

Capital Market

The market in which savings are made available to investors.

Capitalist Economies

Economies which use market-determined prices to guide peoples choices about the production and distribution of goods; these economies generally have productive resource which are privately owned.

Carbon black

An amorphous form of carbon, produced commercially by thermal or oxidative decomposition of hydrocarbons and used principally in rubber goods, pigments, and printer's ink.

Carbon cycle

All carbon reservoirs and exchanges of carbon from reservoir to reservoir by various chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes. Usually thought of as a series of the four main reservoirs of carbon interconnected by pathways of exchange. The four reservoirs, regions of the Earth in which carbon behaves in a systematic manner, are the atmosphere, terrestrial biosphere (usually includes freshwater systems), oceans, and sediments (includes fossil fuels). Each of these global reservoirs may be subdivided into smaller pools, ranging in size from individual communities or ecosystems to the total of all living organisms (biota).

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