Which of These Situations Does Not Involve an Ecosystem Service

question 157

Multiple Choice

Which of these situations does not involve an ecosystem service trade-off?

• A) Use of land to grow food prevents its use as a high-biodiversity prairie ecosystem.
• B) Use of pesticides to kill crop-eating insects also kills pollinators.
• C) Building a canal to transport offshore oil destroys a shrimp fishery.
• D) Fertilizer and pesticide runoff from agriculture prevent use of a stream as a clean water source.
• E) A city apartment building is torn down and another, more modern, building is built.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A statement in hypothesis testing that there is no significant difference or effect, serving as the default assumption to be tested against alternative hypotheses.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points within a population.

F-distributed

Pertaining to an F-distribution, used in statistical analysis to compare variances.

Independent Samples

Two or more groups of observations that are collected from different populations and have no relationship with each other.