Which of the Following Statements Regarding Extinction Is Accurate

question 7

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements regarding extinction is accurate?

• A) A large percentage of species are immune from extinction; however, rates of extinction may increase with continued human impacts.
• B) Extinctions occur only periodically, separated by long time spans with no extinctions.
• C) Extinction is occurring at a similar rate now as compared to historical fossil evidence.
• D) The small-population approach is inferior to the declining-population approach if the goal is to conserve the maximum number of species in a given region.

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Capital

Financial assets or the financial value of assets, such as funds held in deposit accounts and/or the physical factories, machinery and equipment used to produce goods.

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Total Outlay

The total amount of money spent or investment made in acquiring an asset, completing a project, or pursuing an activity.

Marginal Revenue Product

measures the increase in revenue that results from the addition of one more unit of input while holding all other inputs constant.