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:

Fertilizer A

A specific type or brand of fertilizer, a substance used to supply nutrients to plants to promote growth and enhance fertility of the soil.

Wilcoxon Rank-sum Test

The Wilcoxon Rank-sum Test is a nonparametric statistical test used to compare two independent samples to determine if they come from the same distribution.

Parametric Statistical Methods

Statistical methods that assume the data follows a particular distribution, typically used for hypothesis testing or estimating population parameters.

Nonparametric Statistical Methods

Statistical techniques that do not assume a specific distribution for the data, making them suitable for analysis of ordinal data or data that doesn't meet assumptions of parametric tests.