Author Question: Which of the following best describes demographic transition? a. It refers to an upper-size limit ... (Read 23 times)

lunatika · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Which of the following best describes demographic transition?

a. It refers to an upper-size limit that is imposed on a population by its environmental resources and that cannot be permanently exceeded.
b. It refers to movement into a particular country.
c. It refers to the changing patterns of birth and death rates that are brought about by industrialization.
d. It refers to moving out of a particular country.

Question 2

A similarity between the preindustrial stage and the postindustrial stage of demographic transition is that ________.

a. the availability of better and more food helped people resist infectious diseases and reduced infant mortality
b. people were encouraged to have large families so the birthrate stayed high
c. the improvement in lifestyle resulted in falling death rates
d. it resulted in a roughly stable population that grew slowly