Question

46. Natural increase can be best defined as (1 point)
population growth that occurs due to people's desire to migrate to more desirable locations.
population growth that occurs due to an increase in births.
population growth that occurs due to advances in the medical field which will diminish fatal sicknesses.
population growth that occurs due to favorable climatic and weather patterns in a region.

Answer 1

population growth that occurs due to an increase in births.

Explanation:

Natural increase can best be defined as the population growth that occurs due to an increase in births.

Natural increase is a terminology used in describing how a population has change.

It is the difference between the amount of live births and number of death during a year.

• Natural increase in positive when live birth exceeds the death rate in a year.
• It is negative when death rate is more than live births in a year.
• other options are human induced changes in population.

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