An entity that exists in full at any time in which it exists at all, persists through time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts.
An entity that has temporal parts and that happens, unfolds or develops through time.
b is an independent continuant = Def. b is a continuant which is such that there is no c and no t such that b s-depends_on c at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [017-002])
p is a process = Def. p is an occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [083-003])
A specifically dependent continuant that inheres in continuant entities and are not exhibited in full at every time in which it inheres in an entity or group of entities. The exhibition or actualization of a realizable entity is a particular manifestation, functioning or process that occurs under certain circumstances.
b is a relational specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a specifically dependent continuant and there are n > 1 independent continuants c1, … cn which are not spatial regions are such that for all 1 i < j n, ci and cj share no common parts, are such that for each 1 i n, b s-depends_on ci at every time t during the course of b’s existence (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [131-004])
b is a specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant & there is some independent continuant c which is not a spatial region and which is such that b s-depends_on c at every time t during the course of b’s existence. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [050-003])
A realizable entity the manifestation of which brings about some result or end that is not essential to a continuant in virtue of the kind of thing that it is but that can be served or participated in by that kind of continuant in some kinds of natural, social or institutional contexts.
An independent continuant that is spatially extended whose identity is independent of that of other entities and can be maintained through time.
Any main group molecular entity that is gaseous at standard temperature and pressure (STP; 0degreeC and 100 kPa).
Any constitutionally or isotopically distinct atom, molecule, ion, ion pair, radical, radical ion, complex, conformer etc., identifiable as a separately distinguishable entity.
A chemical entity is a physical entity of interest in chemistry including molecular entities, parts thereof, and chemical substances.
Hydroxides are chemical compounds containing a hydroxy group or salts containing hydroxide (OH(-)).
A molecular entity that contains no carbon.
A molecule all atoms of which have the same atomic number.
Any polyatomic entity that is an electrically neutral entity consisting of more than one atom.
An oxide is a chemical compound of oxygen with other chemical elements.
Intended use of the molecular entity or part thereof by humans.
A molecular entity all atoms of which have the same atomic number.
A heteroorganic entity is an organic molecular entity in which carbon atoms or organic groups are bonded directly to one or more heteroatoms.
A p-block molecular entity containing any pnictogen.
Any p-block molecular entity containing a chalcogen.
A molecular entity containing one or more atoms from any of groups 1, 2, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 of the periodic table.
An s-block molecular entity is a molecular entity containing one or more atoms of an s-block element.
A main group molecular entity that contains one or more atoms of a p-block element.
Hydrides are chemical compounds of hydrogen with other chemical elements.
A macromolecule formed by a living organism.
A macromolecule is a molecule of high relative molecular mass, the structure of which essentially comprises the multiple repetition of units derived, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass.
Any molecular entity consisting of more than one atom.
An organochalcogen compound is a compound containing at least one carbon-chalcogen bond.
An organochalcogen compound containing at least one carbon-oxygen bond.
A molecular entity consisting of two or more chemical elements.
In general, a mineral is a chemical substance that is normally crystalline formed and has been formed as a result of geological processes. The term also includes metamict substances (naturally occurring, formerly crystalline substances whose crystallinity has been destroyed by ionising radiation) and can include naturally occurring amorphous substances that have never been crystalline ('mineraloids') such as georgite and calciouranoite as well as substances formed by the action of geological processes on bigenic compounds ('biogenic minerals').
Any molecular entity that contains carbon.
A role is particular behaviour which a material entity may exhibit.
A role played by the molecular entity or part thereof within a chemical context.
A chemical substance is a portion of matter of constant composition, composed of molecular entities of the same type or of different types.
An accumulation of water of varying size.
A region rendered barren or partially barren by environmental extremes, especially by low rainfall.
A part of an astronomical body which is primarily composed of solid material.
A particle which 1) is composed primarily of and derived from rock or mineral sources and 2) is or was part of a portion of sand.
A particle which 1) is primarily composed of quartz or feldspar and 2) is or was part of a portion of silt.
A biome is an ecosystem which is undergoing climactic ecological succession.
A biome which is primarily or completely situated on a landmass.
An environmental material which is primarily composed of minerals, varying proportions of sand, silt, and clay, organic material such as humus, interstitial gases, liquids, and a broad range of resident micro- and macroorganisms.
The mixture of gases (roughly (by molar content/volume: 78% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, trace amounts of other gases, and a variable amount (average around 1%) of water vapor) that surrounds the planet Earth.
An environmental material primarily composed of dihydrogen oxide in its liquid form.
A biome which is determined by a water body and which has ecological climax communities adapted to life in or on water.
Arenosols are sandy soils, including both soils developed in residual sands after in situ weathering of usually quartz-rich sediments or rock, and soils developed in recently deposited sands such as dunes in deserts and beach lands.
Soil which is primarily composed of clay.
Particulate environmental material which 1) is composed primarily of clay particles, with only minor proportions of other materials, 2) demonstrates plasticity when wet, and 3) is capable of hardening when dried or fired.
A portion of enriched soil is a portion of soil with elevated levels of some material entity.
A material entity which other material entities in an environmental system are primarily or partially composed of.
A layer of some material entity which is adjacent to one or more of its external boundaries and directly interacts with its immediate surroundings.
Particulate environmental material which is primarily composed of silt particles.
Particulate environmental material which is composed primarily of particles of sand with only minor proportions of other substances.
An environmental material which is composed primarily of particles.
Environmental material derived from living organisms and composed primarily of one or more biomacromolecules.
An environmental condition is a range of a determinate quality or combination of qualities that are present in an environmental system.
An environmental condition in which annual precipitation is less than half of annual potential evapotranspiration.
A system which has the disposition to environ one or more material entities.
A mineral material is an environmental material which is primarily composed of some substance that is naturally occurring, solid and stable at room temperature, representable by a chemical formula, usually abiogenic, and that has an ordered atomic structure.
Water vapour is a vapour which is the gas phase of water.
An atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding a material body of sufficient mass that is held in place by the gravity of the body.
Atmospheric water vapour is water vapour that is part of an atmosphere.
A material entity which 1) is spatially continuous, 2) is composed of material of comparable thickness, composition, and physical properties, and 3) is physically distinct from adjacent portions of environmental material.
An environment whose dynamics are strongly influenced by water.
The atmospheric boundary layer is the lowest layer of an atmosphere which is strongly influenced by its contact with a planetary surface with strong vertical mixing and in which physical quantities such as flow velocity, temperature, and moisture display rapid fluctuations (turbulence).
A planetary surface is a surface layer where the solid or liquid material of a planet comes into contact with an atmosphere or outer space.
A layer in a water mass, itself composed primarily of water.
A site which has its extent determined by the presence or influence of one or more components of an environmental system or the processes occurring therein.
A boundary layer is a layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface where the effects of viscosity are significant enough to distort the surrounding non-viscous flow.
Natural gas is a hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly includes varying amounts of other higher alkanes and sometimes a usually lesser percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and/or hydrogen sulfide. Natural gas is a fossil fuel formed when layers of buried plants and gases are exposed to intense heat and pressure over thousands of years.
A gas that is primarily composed of hydrocarbon molecules.
Adpated from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_surface
Outer space is a hard vacuum containing a low density of particles, predominantly a plasma of hydrogen and helium as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, neutrinos, dust and cosmic rays that exists between celestial bodies.
A planetary crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet or natural satellite, which is chemically distinct from the underlying mantle.
A planetary structural layer is laminar part of a terrestrial planet or other rocky body large enough to have differentiation by density. Planetary layers have differing physicochemical properties and composition.
A lithosphere is the outermost shell of a terrestrial-type planet or natural satellite that is defined by its rigid mechanical properties.
Hydrological precipitation is a process during which any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour is pulled to the planetary surface by gravity.
Condensation is a process during which a gas undergoes a phase transition into a liquid.
An area of a planet's surface which is primarily composed of bedrock, desert pavement, scarp rock, talus, material exposed by slides, volcanic material, glacial debris, sand, material exposed during strip mining, gravel, and other accumulations of earthen material in contact with an atmospheric column extending from the planetary boundary layer to the planet's exosphere with little to no physical obstruction.
A material entity which is composed of one or more chemical entities and has neither independent shape nor volume but tends to expand indefinitely.
An object which is naturally occuring, bound together by gravitational or electromagnetic forces, and surrounded by space.
A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.
An object which is composed of one or more gravitationally bound structures that are associated with a position in space.
A material part of an astronomical body.
An environmental material which is in a solid state.
An environmental material which is in a liquid state.
An astronomical body part which includes all the living entities within the gravitational sphere of influence of that body, as well as the non-living and dead entities with which they interact.
An astronomical body part which is composed of the combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.
An astronomical body part which is composed of soil, subject to soil formation processes, and found on the surface of a lithosphere.
Air which has increased levels of water vapour.
Air which has a partial pressure of water vapour equal or near equal to its equilibrium vapor pressure at a given temperature.
A hydrological precipitation process in which atmospheric water vapour condenses to form droplets of liquid water massive enough to fall to a planetary surface due to the planet's gravity.
A droplet is a small column of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces which maintains its shape due to the surface tension of the liquid.
A droplet formed by condensation of vapour in an atmosphere and which is sufficiently massive to overcome atmospheric resistance and fall to a planetary surface due to gravity.
A precipitation process is a process in which a portion of some substance segregates from a material in which that substance or its precursors were dissolved or suspended in and settles due to a force such as gravity or centrifugal force.
A material transport process during which a volume of liquid water is transported due to a disequilibria in physical forces.
An environmental system which is determined by materials bearing roughly homogeneous qualities.
environmental system determined by a quality
An environmental system within which an environmental material strongly influences the system's composition and properties.
environmental system determined by a material
An environmental system which is determined by a living organism.
environmental system determined by an organism
An environmental system which has its properties and dynamics determined by soil.
An environmental system which includes both living and non-living components.
A quality which inheres in a astronomical body or astronomical body part by virtue of the variation in its material composition, participation in geological processes, and the variation in is land- and hydroforms.
An environmental zone which is bounded by material parts of a land mass or the atmosphere or space adjacent to it.
A process during which liquid water accumulates in a site, most often in some form of container.
A layer which is primarily composed of some liquid material.
A layer which is primarily composed of some solid material, allowing for non-solid parts such as interstitial pockets of gas or liquid.
An environmental zone which is part of an atmosphere.
A liquid astronomical body part which is primarily composed of a continuous volume of liquid water and is held in shape or sustained by an environmental process.
A surface layer which is composed primarily of solid environmental material.
A liquid astronomical body part which is continuous and is delimited by physical discontinuities or non-liquid boundaries.
A part of an astronomical body which is primarily composed of liquid material.
A part of an astronomical body which is primarily composed of gaseous material.
A part of an astronomical body which is primarily composed of fluid.
A surface layer where the solid or liquid material of an astronomical body comes into contact with an atmosphere or outer space.
A material transformation process during which a material's viscosity increase either through a reduction in temperature, through chemical reactions, or other physical effects.
That part of an atmosphere which is composed of gaseous material.
A surface layer which separates two portions of fluid with respect to either 1) a discontinuity of some fluid property or 2) some derivative of one of these properties in a direction normal to the interface.
A layer which is composed primarily of some fluid.
An object which is composed of a continuous mass of air.
A layer which separates two portions of environmental material which possess 1) differing compositions, 2) a discontinuity of some property, or 3) some derivative of some property in a direction normal to the interface.
An object which is composed primarily of an environmental material
An mass of environmental material which is composed primarily of a solid environmental material
An object which is composed primarily of a fluid.
An object which is composed primarily of a gas.
An object which is composed primarily of a liquid.
An mass of environmental materials which has appreciable quantities of several individual materials, such that the removal of one would convert the mass into a different entity.
mass of compounded environmental materials
A solid astronomical body part which is part of the landmass of that body.
A large continuous area of land, either surrounded by sea or contiguous with another landmass.
A part of an astronomical body which is composed of a continuous medium bearing liquid, gaseous, and solid material in variable quantities.
A surface layer of an astronomical body which is primarily composed of solid material and is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
An ecosystem which primarily occurs on land.
An environmental process either driven by or primarily impacting the parts or emergent properties of an ecosystem.
An object which is formed as a result of one or more biological processes and is composed primarily of organic material.
An ecosystem process during which the species composition of an ecosystem gradually changes as species which are more adapted to the prevailing conditions in the ecosystem replace those which are less adapted.
An ecological succession process during which 1) organisms in ecological communities possess high adaptation to the conditions in the ecosystem, 2) participant communities largely fill available niches, 3) individual organisms are typically replaced by others of the same species, 4) a near equilibrium is maintained between gross primary production and total respiration and across biogeochemical cycles.
A biome which is subject to arid environmental conditions.
A material accumulation process during which the volume of liquid entity increases.
A disposition of a material entity which is realised when it is saturated with liquid water.
A mass of solid material which is either 1) a minute fragment of a larger mass or 2) one of a collection of small masses composing an aggregate.
A particle which 1) is composed primarily of hydrous aluminium phyllosilicate minerals, in turn composed of aluminium and silicon ions bonded into tiny, thin plates by interconnecting oxygen and hydroxide ions, and 2) is or was part of a portion of clay.
A mixture of crushed and coarsely ground bones that is used as an organic fertilizer for plants and formerly in animal feed.
Food material which can be used to meet nutritional requirements of plants.
An environmental material which is unable to resist shear forces and continuously deforms when subject to them.
A process in which includes the components of an environmental system as participants.
A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from the overflow of inland and/or tidal waters, and/or the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source. A great flow along a watercourse or a flow causing inundation of lands not normally covered by water.
GEMET: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/3301
A process which occurs within an atmosphere.
An environmental process which has water - in any of its states - as a participant.
A process during which the mass of one or more materials, present within a given site, increases.
A process during which material is displaced from its original location and transported either to a new location or back to the original location.
A process during which a portion of some environmental material is converted into a different material or a collection of materials.
A surface layer which is composed primarily of soil.
A layer that is composed primarily of soil.
Water-holding capacity which inheres in some soil.
The temperature of some environmental material.
The quality of a environmental system process.
hydrocarbon-based environmental material
An environment which is determined by an anatomical entity.
Any substance that can be consumed by an organism to satisfy nutritional or other health needs, or to provide a social or organoleptic food experience
A biological process is the execution of a genetically-encoded biological module or program. It consists of all the steps required to achieve the specific biological objective of the module. A biological process is accomplished by a particular set of molecular functions carried out by specific gene products (or macromolecular complexes), often in a highly regulated manner and in a particular temporal sequence.
A dependent entity that inheres in a bearer by virtue of how the bearer is related to other entities
A single physical entity inhering in an bearer by virtue of the bearer's quantities or relative ratios of subparts.
A quality of a single physical entity inhering in the bearer by virtue of the bearer's size or shape or structure.
A quality of a single process inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's occurrence.
A quality of an entity that is descriptive or observational, typically not represented numerically.
A quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the whether the bearer differs from normal or average.
A morphology quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's relative position, shape, arrangements and connectivity of an organism's various parts; the pattern underlying its form.
A physical quality of the thermal energy of a system.
A morphologic quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's relative size, organization and distribution of its surface elements or the representation or invention of the appearance of its surface; visual and tactile surface characteristics.
A quality of a single process inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's being uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent.
A structure quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's disposition to admit the passage of gas or liquid through pores or interstices.
A porosity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's being capable of admitting the passage of gas or liquid through pores or interstices.
A quality of a physical entity that exists through action of continuants at the physical level of organisation in relation to other entities.
A quality which inheres in a continuant.
multiply inhering quality of a physical entity
A physical quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's disposition to being turned, bowed, or twisted without breaking.
A physical quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's inability of being turned, bowed, or twisted without breaking.
A physical quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's exhibiting the physical characteristics of an entity characterized by particles arranged such that their shape and volume are relatively stable.
A physical quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's exhibiting the physical characteristics of an entity consisting of particles that have neither a defined volume nor defined shape.
A physical quality inhering in an entity exhibiting the physical characteristics of an amorphous (non-crystalline) form of matter between a gas and a solid that has a definite volume, but no definite shape.
A composition quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's containing granules.
A quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's processing the form of a thin plate sheet or layer.
A quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of its constitution.
A quality that has a value that is increased compared to normal or average.
A quality of an object that has a value that is increased compared to normal or average.
A temporal distribution pattern of process occurrences within a regulation/reference process.
A quality inhering in air by virtue of the partial pressure exerted by the bearer's water vapour content.
The propensity of a material to undergo combustion. Combustion encompasses smouldering and flaming combustion. Combustibility is usually applied to solids.
A material entity that consists of two or more organisms, viruses, or viroids.
A multi-species collection of organisms of at least two different species, living in a particular area. Must have at least two populations of different species as members.
A collection of organisms that consists of two or more organisms from at least two species.
A material entity that is one or more organisms, viruses or viroids.
A material entity consisting of multiple components that are causally integrated.
Biological entity that is either an individual member of a biological species or constitutes the structural organization of an individual member of a biological species.