Respond to the Following Statements with Reference to the Five

question 59

Multiple Choice

Respond to the following statements with reference to the five trophic categories listed below.
-A bear feeding on an adult salmon (which eats other fish,squid,and shrimp) is functioning as this.

• A)Producer
• B)Primary consumer
• C)Secondary consumer
• D)Tertiary consumer
• E)Decomposer

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Definitions:

Risk Aversion

The tendency to prefer avoiding losses over acquiring equivalent gains; the degree of variability in investment returns that an investor is willing to withstand.

Possible Losses

Potential or anticipated losses, which could be in terms of finances, opportunities, well-being, or other valuable aspects.

Possible Gains

The potential benefits or positive outcomes that might be achieved from a particular action or decision.

Error Management Theory

A theory suggesting that humans are evolved to favor strategies that minimize the more costly type of errors in the dual nature of decision-making errors: false positives and false negatives.