Today, the Rate of Extinction of Species Surpasses the Great

question 20

Multiple Choice

Today, the rate of extinction of species surpasses the great mass extinctions of the geologic past, and the largest number of extinctions can be traced to

• A) human exploitation of animals.
• B) human destruction of habitats.
• C) organisms that are ecological opportunists.
• D) vast numbers of meteorite impacts.

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Definitions:

Distribution

Describes how values are spread or distributed across various levels or intervals in a dataset.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the set deviate from the mean.

Distribution

Describes the frequency or probability of all possible outcomes of a random variable.

Box Plots

Box plots, also known as box-and-whisker plots, are graphical representations used in descriptive statistics that show the distribution, central value, and variability of a dataset through quartiles, highlighting median, quartiles, and outliers in the data.