The Range of Conditions and Resources Required by a Population

question 14

Multiple Choice

The range of conditions and resources required by a population is known as its ____, while the range of conditions and resources that it actually uses is known as its ____.

• A) fundamental niche; habitat
• B) trophic level; habitat
• C) realized niche; fundamental niche
• D) fundamental niche; realized niche
• E) ecological niche; trophic level

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Definitions:

Placebo

A substance with no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs, or used to stimulate a patient's psychological healing process.

StdDev

Standard Deviation, a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values.

Median

The central number in a series that divides the upper half from the bottom half.

StdDev

A rephrased term for standard deviation, indicating the degree to which individual data points in a set diverge from the mean value.