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

The meaning of the word "resilience" as used in the excerpt is ability to defend itself.

According to the excerpt, it is said that it was quite complex to pinpoint a particular reason why a marsh will deteriorate because it can fall apart in many different ways.

Based on the usage of the word "resilience" where it says that a previous assumption claims that gains in marsh elevation and sediment shows greater resilience as it implies that the marsh has an ability to defend itself.

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identify the subordinate clause in each of the following sentences. tell whether each clause is used as an adjective, an adverb, or a noun.

11.) emily dickinson, who was born in 1830in amherst, massachusetts, was a great american poet.

12.) she appeared to lead a fairly normal life until she became a recluse in her family's home.

13.) there she wrote poems that literary critics now call "great american poetry".

14.) unfortunately, only a few of dickinson's poems were published while she was alive.

15.) after she died in 1886, her other poems were published.

16.) i think everyone should reaad at least some of dickonson's poetry.

17.) dickinson is a poet whose work i now read often.

18.) the poems i have just finished reading are "a narrow fellow in the grass" and "apparently with no surprise"

19.) the rythyms of dickonson's poems are best appreciated when you read the poems aloud.

20.) whatever i read by emily dickonson surprises amd inspires me.