Species with Very Large Geographic Ranges That Can Span Several

question 9

Multiple Choice

Species with very large geographic ranges that can span several continents are called

• A) abundant.
• B) endemic.
• C) cosmopolitan.
• D) dispersed.

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Definitions:

Observed Cell Counts

The actual number of observations or data points that fall into defined categories in a contingency table.

Probabilities

Refers to the likelihood of different outcomes in an uncertain event, usually expressed as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information in a dataset that are available for estimating a statistic, often related to the number of observations and the number of parameters being estimated.

Chi-square Statistic

A measure used in statistics to test hypotheses about the distribution of observations in different categories, based on the sum of squared discrepancies between observed and expected counts.