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 Mona is putting together a new crib and she wants to have a harder time screwing the pieces together, what should she look for in a screw? 
 Answer: farther threads
Therefore, if the threads on a screw are closer together, you need to apply less force to penetrate the wood or other object.

Question: Jean is looking at a rock face that shows the layers of the Earth. Jean notes that the rocks towards the top of the exposed cliff have an age that is 
 Answer: lesser
Older layers are deeper in the Earth, younger layers are closer to the surface.

Question: John was looking at statistics for births in the large city. He saw that as the population shrank, the growth rate 
 Answer: decreased

In exponential growth as the population size increases, the growth rate also increases.