TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: Question: If Milo is measuring the seafloor and he notices the level of spreading has decreased, what will happen to the sea level? 
 Answer: it will fall

SOLUTION: Sea level rises if an increase in seafloor spreading rate buoys up the ocean crust, causing the ocean basin to become smaller.

PROBLEM: Question: Decreasing the mass of an object causes its inertia to 
 Answer: decrease

SOLUTION: The full box is harder to move because it has greater mass and therefore greater inertia.

PROBLEM: Question: In small atoms valence electrons are usually 
 Answer: closer

SOLUTION:
In bigger atoms, valence electrons are farther from the nucleus.