The terms used for Ask IFAS organization are selected with consideration of the terminology used in UF/IFAS publications and programs, as well as the terms recommended by the U.S. National Agricultural Library Thesaurus (NALT) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's AGROVOC thesaurus.&nbsp;

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Organisms

Organismos

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Locations

Lugares

Practices

Prácticas 

In scientific usage, a phenomenon is any event that is observable, however common it might be, even if it requires the use of instrumentation to observe, record, or compile data concerning it. In natural sciences, a phenomenon is an observable happening or event.

Phenomena

Fenómenos naturales

A process is a set of interrelated or interacting activities which transforms inputs into outputs.

Processes

Procesos

Products

Productos

Activities

Actividades

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Components

Componentes

Entities

Entidades

Systems

Sistemas

Time

Tiempo

Features

Características 

Properties

Propiedades

Objects in this context subsume man-made, touchable things like &ldquo;equipment&rdquo; and &ldquo;furniture&rdquo;.&nbsp;

Objects

Objetos 

Substances

Sustancias

A number of individual items or people brought together.

Groups

Agrupaciones

States are any condition in which a physical substance or organism can be in.&nbsp;

State

Sciences

Ciencias

Something taking place at a certain point in time.

Events

Días festivos 

SCOPE:&nbsp;Methods differ from activities in that for the former usually a formal or standardized description is available and that they involve a number of steps

Methods

Métodos

Resources

Recursos

The application of scientific knowledge to practical purposes in any field. It includes methods, techniques, and instrumentation.

Technology

Tecnología

While a measure can also denote an action taken, in this context, it is clearly defined as something that can be observed and involves a measurement. A measure is defined as a &ldquo;number or quantity that records a directly observable value or performance. All measures have a unit attached to them: inch, centimetre, dollar, litre, etc."