In this task, you are given a question and answer for that. The answer will fill in the blank or will complete the unfinished question. Your task is to provide an explanation based on the given question or fill-in-the-blank statement, and answer.

Question: If Milo's country begins decreasing the size of its population, what happens to its growth rate? 
 Answer: it decreases
With exponential growth, the population starts out growing slowly. As population size increases, the growth rate also increases.

Question: Mona is excavating a deep tunnel as part of an exploratory committee. As she bores deeper in to the Earth, what can she expect will happen to the temperature? 
 Answer: increase
Temperature increases with depth inside the Earth, so melting of rocks is more likely to occur at greater depths.

Question: In ancient times, there was worse medicine. This means there was a _____ death rate. 
 Answer: higher

More recently, the death rate has fallen because of the availability of more food and medical advances.