HLP DONT ANSWER if you DONT know the CORRECT ANSWER. Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Complete the passage about the nitrogen cycle.

During nitrogen fixation, specialized bacteria living in Earth’s 1) convert nitrogen taken from the 2) onto ammonia. Another set of bacteria convert the ammonia to compounds called nitrates that plants and animals can use.

1. A. cryosphere, B. geosphere, C. atmosphere
2. A. hydrosphere, B. atmosphere, C. geosphere

How does the author's purpose in this passage differ from an author writing about her personal struggle living with asthma?

Recent research by marine biologists suggests that bottlenose dolphins have names for themselves. scientists played sounds they had identified as the names of particular dolphins, putting them through a synthesizer so that they did not sound like the voices of particular dolphins. the researchers found that dolphins would respond to the names of other dolphins that they were related to or associated with, but they ignored the names of strangers. this discovery suggests a much greater degree of self-awareness in aquatic mammals than was previously suspected. if this research holds up, what does it suggest about dolphins?

How are the testes and ovaries similar? a. both produce sex cells. b. both connect internal reproductive organs to the exterior. c. both transport sex cells from their site of production. d. both store mature sex cells.