What Characterizes the Third Stage (Industrial)of the Demographic Transition Model

question 42

Multiple Choice

What characterizes the third stage (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 and death rates remain high.
• E)Population growth declines as birth rates are low and death rates are high.

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Definitions:

Epididymis

A tube at the back of the testicles that stores and carries sperm.

Immature Sperm

Sperm cells that have not fully developed and are incapable of fertilizing an egg.

Seminal Vesicles

Glands in the male reproductive system that produce the majority of the fluid in semen.

Prostate Gland

A gland in the male reproductive system that produces components of semen.