Floods and Fires Are Examples of , Which Can Dramatically

question 69

Multiple Choice

Floods and fires are examples of , which can dramatically and unpredictably reduce populations.

• A) biotic factors
• B) environmental resistance
• C) demographic factors
• D) logistic growth factors
• E) density- dependent factors

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Definitions:

Uniformly Distributed

Describes a distribution where all outcomes are equally likely to occur.

Capital Punishment

A legal penalty where a person is sentenced to death by the state as punishment for a crime.

Poisson Distribution

A discrete probability distribution expressing the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming that these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Arrival Rate

In the context of queueing theory, it refers to the average number of items (customers, calls, etc.) arriving at a service facility per unit of time.