Walking along a mile-long path in the woods, you notice a stand of your favorite wildflower, the cardinal flower, three different times. You find each stand of cardinal flower, including many flowers in each stand, on a stream bank. This is an example of a ________ distribution.

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The fact that the stands of cardinal flower are clustered together on a stream bank suggests a clumped distribution. Clumped distributions are common in nature, as individuals of a species often occur in groups based on resource availability and other factors. This is in contrast to a uniform distribution, where individuals are evenly spaced, or a random distribution, where individuals are randomly dispersed. A normal distribution refers to a bell-shaped curve that is often used to describe the distribution of continuous data in statistics, and does not apply to this scenario.

Walking Along a Mile-Long Path in the Woods, You Notice