You Are Working on a Project in a Desert That

question 21

Multiple Choice

You are working on a project in a desert that has never been explored and you want to determine what species of insects interact with one another.You need to first learn what species are found in the ecosystem you will study.Therefore,you start by going to your site and making _______.

• A) Field experiments to test species interactions
• B) Observations to learn species distributions and abundances
• C) Applied scientific results
• D) A mathematical model to calculate the number of species that you will encounter

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Definitions:

Construct Validity

The extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure, assessing the accuracy of an instrument or experiment.

Conceptual Replication

The process of conducting a study with different methods or measures than the original to validate the same underlying concept or hypothesis.

Direct Replication

The process of conducting a study with the same methodology and under the same conditions as a previous study to verify its results.

Meta-analysis

is a statistical technique that combines the results of multiple scientific studies to arrive at a comprehensive conclusion.