Question

Students make the claim that the wolf population increases when resources are abundant.

Information
Populations of Wolves and Moose by Decade
Number of Wolves Number of Moose Year
22 510 1960
18 1100 1970
50 750 1980
15 1300 1990
25 1100 2000

Question
Which information is the ,begin emphasis,best,end emphasis, evidence to support the claim?

Answer options with 4 options
A.
There were the highest number of wolves and moose in 1980.

B.
There were fewer wolves than moose in the ecosystem in 1960.

C.
There were increases in the wolf population after each increase in the moose population.

D.
There were decreases in the wolf population at the same time as increases in the moose population.

Answers

Answered by GPT-4o mini
The best evidence to support the claim that the wolf population increases when resources (in this case, moose) are abundant is:

**C. There were increases in the wolf population after each increase in the moose population.**

This option directly supports the claim by indicating a correlation between the abundance of moose and the subsequent increase in the wolf population.

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