Question

a teacher is interested in learning more about the different kinds of plants growing in different areas of the state. she asks students of the town to photograph plants in their area using a smartphone and record date, time, and location of the photography. afterward, the teacher will analyze the data to try to determine where different kinds of plants grow in the state. which of the following does this situation best demonstrate?
options:

• citizen science
• machine learning
• crowdfunding
• green ai

Explanation:

The situation involves using residents (a crowd) to collect data about plant growth (photograph, date, location) for analysis. Crowdsourcing is getting a large group (crowd) to contribute data/efforts, which matches this scenario. Green AI focuses on energy efficiency in AI, machine learning is about algorithms learning from data (not just data collection by a crowd), and citizen science is similar but crowdsourcing here is more about data collection for analysis, and the option "Crowdsourcing" directly fits the act of using many residents to gather data.

Answer:

Crowdsourcing