Amaya collected insects in the forest. she was unable to identify one unusual looking insect using a dichotomous key. amaya concluded that the insect must be a new species. which facts would support the conclusion that the insect is a new species?

a. amaya skipped a question in the dichotomous key that was not easy to answer.
b. the way the insect was collected may have caused damage to its exoskeleton and wings.
c. several other thorough and up-to-date dichotomous keys also failed to identify the insect.
d. the normal diet of many insects in the forest has been seriously altered by a recent drought.

Consider the last statement in the prompt: "people take such environmental factors into account in their choices when deciding where to live." do all people have a choice as to where they live? what factor plays a key role in this decision and may therefore play a large role in determining quality of life?

Tara sees a commercial for a brand of pills that promise to boost energy and people perform better in work and school. as people in the commercial talk about how much better they feel when taking the pill, tara notices a message on the bottom of the screen that reads, "this pill is not approved by doctors and has not been tested in controlled experiments." what is the best conclusion that tara should make about the commercial? it is making scientific claims based on subjective observations. it is making scientific claims based on opinions instead of pseudoscientific facts. it is making pseudoscientific claims based on objective observations. it is making pseudoscientific claims based on opinions instead of scientific facts.

The fish shown above is a tarpon. it is a fast-swimming and powerful open-water fish. its closest relatives, oddly, are burrow-dwelling conger eels that stay on the bottom. both eels and tarpon developed from snake-like larvae that float in the plankton during the first stages of life. once they mature, tarpon and eels are not found near one another in the ocean. the tarpon and the eel illustrate all of the following except