HELP ASAP This is a habitat recovering from a forest fire. Based on your experimental data, which type of plant would you predict to sprout first and grow fastest: weeds similar to sunflowers or hardwoods similar to birch trees?

Choices:

fast-growing weeds/flowers

slow-growing hardwoods

If a scientist returned to this forest two years later, what species might she expect to find dominating the habitat?

Choices:

fast-growing weeds/flowers

slow-growing hardwoods

I think it is the fast growing weeds/flowers

1. fast-growing weeds/flowers

2. slow-growing hardwoods

Explanation:

step 1: nitrogen fixation- conversion of atmospheric no₂ into forms useful to plants by lightning, bacteria, and cyanobacteria.

step 2: nitrification-process of converting ammonia to nitrite or nitrate.

step 3: assimilation-plant roots absorb new form of nitrogen.

step 4: ammonification-conversion of organic nitrogen to ammonia by bacteria involved in decomposition.

step 5: denitrification-bacteria turns the decomposed matter back into n₂o, which is released into atmosphere; repeat cycle.