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.

Q: Question: An increase in birth rates indicates a/an _____ in the food supply. 
 Answer: increase

A: Low food supply or a lack of space can lower birth rates, increase death rates, or lead to emigration.
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Q: Question: When we have one bag of dog food and we add two new dogs we will run out of food 
 Answer: faster

A: As the population increases, the food supply, or the supply of another necessary resource, may decrease.
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Q: Question: When you get further from the sun are planets more or less attracted to the sun? 
 Answer: less

A:
When valence electrons are farther from the nucleus, they are attracted less strongly by the nucleus and more easily removed from the atom.
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