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: Sarah is traveling, and notices that continents get larger when they are where in relation to the pole 
 Answer: closer
[A]: In a Mercator projection, because Greenland is closer to the pole, the continents shape and size are greatly increased.


[Q]: Question: If Mona is driving her car and she begins to slow acceleration, what happens to the car's kinetic energy? 
 Answer: decreases
[A]: Anything that is moving has kinetic energy, and the faster it is moving, the more kinetic energy it has.


[Q]: Question: If Mona creates a longitudinal wave and decreases the distance of the particles in the wave, what happens to the amplitude of that wave? 
 Answer: increases
[A]:
The closer together the particles in a longitudinal wave are, the greater the amplitude.