Sampling Techniques Quiz 7 (30 MCQs)

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1. Which of these instruments would be used to measure a biotic factor?
2. To study the amount of time students spend doing homework each day, use a random number generator to select 10% freshmen, 10% sophomores, 10% juniors, and 10% seniors to survey.
3. A subset of the population from which data are obtained is called
4. Temperature is measured using a .....
5. Mr. Roberts is forming a faculty advisory committee. He decides to randomly choose 2 teachers from each of the core content subjects. This is an example of
6. A researcher randomly selects and interviews fifty male and fifty female teachers.
7. All the different populations that live together in an area make up a(n)
8. The Vice President for Academic Affairs divides the GHC student population into groups based on the campus attended. Fifty students from each campus are randomly selected to participate in a survey.
9. There are 40 sheep on a farm.The weight of the sheep is ..... data
10. Mr. Piper surveys his students he has in ImpTime. That type of sampling is called?
11. One of the characteristics of normal distribution
12. What sampling method are you using if you survey every 10th person who enters the cafeteria?
13. Ms. Noelle draws a sample on her class by picking 10 numbers from her hat and each number is assigned to a student. This is ..... sampling.
14. A simple random and systematic sample are types of
15. It is called "chain-referral" sampling technique.
16. What is the name used to describe a list of people in the target population?
17. A non-living element in an ecosystem is an
18. For a statistics project, you survey your family members about the upcoming election.
19. A farmer separates his apple tree farm into 10 regions. He counts the number of apples produced in just one of the regions and uses that estimate to predict the number of apples produced on the whole farm. This is ..... sampling.
20. A type of non-probability sampling where the researcher is selecting a sample based on the availability of the member and/or proximity to the researcher
21. Clive wants to estimate the number of bees in a beehive.Clive catches 50 bees from the beehive.He marks each bee with a dye.He then lets the bees go.The next day, Clive catches 40 bees from the beehive.8 of these bees have been marked with the dye.(i) Work out an estimate for the number of bees in the beehive.
22. Refer to the the entirety of the group including all the members that forms a set a data.
23. When using systematic sampling to select a sample of 25 from a target population of 100, every ..... person must be selected.
24. Cluster, stratified, simple random, and systematic are all types of
25. Identify the sampling technique used in the following study:A school official divides the student population into five classes:freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate student. The official takes a random sample from each class and asks the members' opinions regarding student services.
26. Identify the sampling technique used in the following study:A survey regarding download time on a certain Web site is administered on the Internet by a market research firm to anyone who would like to take it.
27. Identify the sampling design:Mrs. Krohn asked each of her A day classes who their favorite Tiger King cast member is
28. How do adaptations help animals?
29. What do you call the set of all data that researchers want to investigate?
30. Determine the type of data:number of cattle in a farm