While Playing Soccer in Your Backyard, You Disrupt a Small

question 50

Multiple Choice

While playing soccer in your backyard, you disrupt a small fire ant mound. The fire ants emerge and bite your feet. Your feet begin to show swollen, raised areas around the bites. What is happening?

• A) Your innate internal defenses have been activated.
• B) Your adaptive defenses have been activated.
• C) Blood flow to the affected area decreases.
• D) You are experiencing passive immunity.

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Definitions:

Dependent Variable

The variable in an experiment that is expected to change as a result of changes made to the independent variable.

Observational Evidence

Information and data gathered through observing phenomena without manipulating variables, often used in studies where controlled experiments are not feasible.

Critical Thinking

The process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.

Cause-Effect Conclusion

Logical determination that specifies how one event (the cause) directly leads to another event (the effect).