What Is the Difference Between Foraging and Food Production

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Multiple Choice

What is the difference between foraging and food production?

• A) Foraging uses only wild plants and animals, while food production cultivates and domesticates them.
• B) Food production depends only on plant foods, while foraging involves both plants and animals.
• C) Foraging allows for more control over processes like animal breeding and plant seeding.
• D) Food production requires a strict division of labor by gender, while foraging is rarely split by gender.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

In statistics, it refers to the number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, less the number of parameters estimated.

Chi-Square

A statistical test used to assess the differences between categorically grouped data by comparing the observed frequencies of groups with expected frequencies derived from a hypothesis.

Row Variable

A variable that constitutes the basis for organizing data in rows in a table or matrix, often used in cross-tabulation.

Column Variable

A variable represented in one of the vertical columns of a data table, often used in multivariate analysis and cross-tabulations.