Based on the given conversation above between Ben and his parents, the testable question for the hurricane research of Ben is option C: "Is the number of hurricanes increasing each year?" This is the testable question since they are arguing about the number of hurricanes in the past summers. Hope this helps.
The
correct answer is mutualistic bacteria in the hindgut of the termite digest the
cellulose into sugars.
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Termites
depend upon the whole complex of microbes in their hindgut. Microbes inside the
termites help the breakage of the complex sugars like a cellulose into short-chain
fatty acids.</span>
