Using Your Sociological Knowledge of How People Adapt to a Changing

Multiple Choice

Using your sociological knowledge of how people adapt to a changing environment and your knowledge of demographics, why would fertility rates eventually decline in response to lower mortality rates?

A) Developed countries are the first to experience lower mortality rates, and these are the countries most concerned about population growth.
B) An explosion in population growth scares the average person and so they have fewer children.
C) As fewer people die young, couples have smaller families because more of their children will live to be adults.
D) Population growth leads many governments to enact extreme measures to limit fertility rates.