Growing Understanding of the Affects of the Little Ice Age

question 67

Multiple Choice

Growing understanding of the affects of the Little Ice Age leads to the suggestion that the chief cause of the rapid collapse of the Jamestown colony may well have been ______________

• A) flooding.
• B) shortened growing season.
• C) a seven year drought.
• D) poor farming practices.

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Definitions:

Generate Hypotheses

The process of formulating testable assumptions or propositions about a phenomenon or relationship between variables.

Empirical Methods

These are techniques that rely on observation, experimentation, and evidence rather than theory alone for knowledge acquisition.

Manipulated Independent Variable

An independent variable for which participants have been randomly assigned to an experimental group.

Randomly Assigns

In experimental design, the process by which study participants are allocated to different groups in a manner that ensures each participant has an equal chance of being placed in any group.