Question

When would it always make the most sense for an ecologist to use sampling?

when the population is small

when a population lives in the water

when the population is spread out

when a population is easy to count

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

When the population is spread out. Sampling is most useful when it is difficult or impossible to count every individual in a population, so when a population is spread out, using sampling allows the ecologist to gather data on a representative subset of the population without needing to count every single individual.