Echinoderms Often Have an Important Ecological Effect on Their Environment

question 104

Essay

Echinoderms often have an important ecological effect on their environment. Provide at least 2 examples of their effects in particular locations.

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Definitions:

Overall Set

The complete or total collection of elements, items, or objects under consideration.

Anchoring

The tendency people have to unconsciously base, or “anchor,” the valuation of an item they are currently thinking about on recently considered but logically irrelevant information.

Irrelevant Information

Information that has no bearing on the decisions being made, providing no value to the decision-making process.

Anchoring

A cognitive bias that describes the human tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered when making decisions.