Why Does Total Fertility Rather Than the Actual Birth Rate

question 23

Multiple Choice

Why does total fertility rather than the actual birth rate give a more accurate picture of a population's potential to grow?

• A) Because total fertility tells you how many children women have overall
• B) Because total fertility tells you how many children women actually have on average
• C) Because birth rate tells you how many children women are actually having which can change as society changes
• D) Because total fertility tells you how many children women could have rather than how many they do have, so it is higher than birth rate
• E) Because birth rate changes over time and total fertility is constant

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Definitions:

Convergent Evolution

The process where organisms not closely related independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches.

Monotreme

A mammal that lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young, such as the platypus and echidnas, belonging to the most primitive order of mammals.

Therian

A subgroup of mammals that includes marsupials and placental mammals, distinguished from monotremes.

Morphologically Resemble

To share physical similarities in form and structure with another species or entity.