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Favored treatment that a government gives to selected private enterprise. Examples are reduced taxes, direct financial or technical assistance, and guaranteed minimum output price levels.

Developed and undeveloped reserves of mineral deposits located on or below the earth’s surface.

Basic human rights, including the right to the substance of being human such as life itself, liberty and happiness.

The surface beneath a wetland, lake, or stream in which organisms grow or to which organisms are attached.

The diameter of streambed particles such as clay, silt, sand, gravel, cobble and boulders.

A shallow drain installed in an irrigated field to intercept the rising ground-water level and maintain the water table at an acceptable depth below the land surface.

All water – solid, liquid or gaseous – that occurs beneath the Earth’s surface; located below the water table in the zone of saturation.

Continuously submerged; an area affected by ocean tides.

A semipermanent anticyclone located, on the average, over oceans near

The natural sequence of plant community replacement beginning with bare ground and resulting in a final, stable community in which a climax forest is reached. Foresters, wildlife biologists, and farmers constantly battle ecological succession to try to maintain a particular vegetative cover.