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 the ocean basin were to decrease, the sea level would 
 Answer: rise
Sea level rises if an increase in seafloor spreading rate buoys up the ocean crust, causing the ocean basin to become smaller.

Question: If Mona is manipulating the charge of a couple of her objects, what happens to the electrostatic force if she decreases the charge of one of the objects? 
 Answer: decrease
The more charged the objects are, the stronger the electrostatic force between them.

Question: Alan saw Venus through his old telescope. He then looked through his bigger, better telescope. Venus likely appears brighter through the 
 Answer: bigger telescope

Larger telescopes can collect more light.