Select the correct answer. Read the excerpt from "Exploring the Secrets of Marsh Happiness" by NOAA.
Characterizing an "unhappy," deteriorating tidal marsh is more complex because marshes can fall apart in many different ways. One finding
contradicted a previous assumption: namely, that gains in marsh elevation and sediment indicate greater resilience. The authors say
marshes with these characteristics performed inconsistently and often signaled the muddy mess that degrading marshes can become, not
marsh health
What is the meaning of the word resilience as used in the excerpt?
OA ability to recover
OB. ability to be consistent
OC ability to defend itself
OD. ability to adjust to change

Grammar: sequence of verp tenses quiz active the is used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive

What functions as a reflexive pronoun in the sentence the professor herself wanted to attend the conference, but it was cancelled when she and several other presenters had to excuse themselves

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief