Marine Habitats Are Experiencing Rapidly Increasing Rates of Species Extinction

question 15

True/False

Marine habitats are experiencing rapidly increasing rates of species extinction due to factors such as rapid human development and poor environmental management.

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve that describes the spread of a variable where most observations cluster around the central peak and the probabilities for values farther from the mean taper off symmetrically.

Probability

Probability measures the likelihood of a given event occurring, ranging from 0 (impossibility) to 1 (certainty).

Cluster Sample

A sampling technique where the population is divided into groups, or clusters, and a sample of these clusters is selected to represent the population.

Simple Random Sample

A sample drawn in such a way that every element of the population has an equal chance of being selected.