A model is used by ecologists to

A) prove how nature works by demonstrating cause-and-effect relationships.
B) analyze data that have been collected during an experiment.
C) make predictions about how nature works using a set of explicit assumptions.
D) observe how nature works in an experimental setting.


C

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