From Saving Species: Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles
Every summer, Padre Island National Seashore's turtle team inventories Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests in the park's sandy beaches along the
Gulf of Mexico. The eggs are carefully dug up and incubated at a park lab away from human disruptions and natural predators. Under the watchful
eye of Donna Shaver, Ph. D., chief of sea turtle science and recovery, thousands of turtle babies are hatched and released, often cheered on by
doring crowds as they make their slow crawl to the sea. After five years of record nesting, Shaver says the park's plan to restore the endangered
Kemp's ridley is working: turtles hatched from eggs transplanted from Mexico, as part of an international recovery effort and released 10-15 years
ago are coming back to the park to lay their own eggs. They are even being joined by "wild stock"—turtles that were not hatched as part of the
recovery efforts-making Padre Island National Seashore the most prolific Kemp's ridley nesting beach in the U. S.
(from "Saving Species: Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles by the U. S. National Park Service)
What does the word prolific indicate about the beach described in the passage?
1. It is a home to powerful ocean conditions.
2. It is a place where primitive species are studied.
3. It is a productive site for increasing sea turtle populations,
4. It is a popular destination for tourists to observe sea turtles.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. but it is in india, where it was used as an offering in religious and magical ceremonies, that we have the first written record of sugar. long before the first pyramids were built in egypt, the ancient sumerians traded with the people of harappa and mohenjo daro, who lived along the indus river. unfortunately, we are still not able to read the writings left behind from those ancient cities. so the first documents telling us about life in that region come from a much later period. these hindu sacred teachings were probably first gathered together sometime between 1500 and 900 b. c., and were carefully memorized. only hundreds of years later were they finally written down. the hindu writings tell us of a religion in which fire was extremely important. people believed that the gods gave fire to human beings. yet fire was also a way for humans to reach the gods. by placing offerings in a special fire, a priest could turn them into smoke and send them on to the gods. five ingredients were selected for this special burning: milk, cheese, butter, honey, and sugar cane. which details would best fit in a summary of this passage? select two options. "in india . . it was used as an offering in religious and magical ceremonies" "the first written record of sugar" "long before the first pyramids were built in egypt" "gods gave fire to human beings" "a priest could turn them into smoke and send them on to the gods"