COSEWIC Uses the Following Terms for Risk Categories in Its

question 59

Multiple Choice

COSEWIC uses the following terms for risk categories in its assessments: ________.

• A) near threatened, vulnerable, and endangered
• B) endangered, special concern, and threatened
• C) threatened, endangered, and critically endangered
• D) endangered, ecologically extinct, and extinct

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Definitions:

Common Difference

The constant difference between successive terms of an arithmetic sequence.

Sequence

A set of numbers arranged in a specific order, where each number is related to one or more numbers before/after it according to a specific rule.

Sigma Notation

A concise way of expressing a sum of terms using the Greek letter sigma (Σ), indicating a series to be added together.

Alternating Series

A series in mathematics where the terms alternately change their signs between positive and negative.