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: John was playing with alkanes in his lab. If he increased the amount of carbon atoms in an alkane, what would happen to the boiling point of that alkane? 
 Answer: increase
[A]: Alkanes with more carbon atoms have higher boiling and melting points, so some of them are solids at room temperature.


[Q]: Question: If Milo is measuring the seafloor and he notices the level of spreading has increased, what will happen to the sea level? 
 Answer: it will rise
[A]: Sea level rises if an increase in seafloor spreading rate buoys up the ocean crust, causing the ocean basin to become smaller.


[Q]: Question: If we have a bag of feathers and a bag of bricks of the same volume, the heavier item will be the 
 Answer: bricks
[A]:
If we have two materials with the same volume, the material with a higher mass will be more dense.