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skymedlock · **on:** Jul 13, 2018

What characterizes the fourth stage (post-industrial) of the demographic transition model?
a. Birth rates remained high, but death rates dropped sharply due to medical and other innovations of the Industrial Revolution.
b. Birth rates begin to fall as affluence spread
c. Low birth rates and low death rates result in low population growth
d. Birth rates are low and death rates are high.
e. The population growth rate increases.

Question 2

Monocultures and components of the Green Revolution put more food on the global table. However, it may render agriculture more vulnerable to pests and diseases and thus pose long-term risks of famine.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false