With fewer trees, the air is drier and droughts are more common. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are decrease or increase ): The logging company in your town is proposing they plant several thousand acres of trees. If they do so, the chances of droughts in your area will decrease or increase?
decrease

In transipration, at warmer temperatures water molecules move faster, and the rate of evaporation from stomata is therefore much faster. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are Higher or Lower. ): John monitors the log to see the temperature of the water, and he notices that as the temperature falls, the evaporation rate is Higher or Lower.?
Lower.

Q: So the higher an object is above a surface, the more potential energy it has. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are more or less ): A ball that is on the top of the empire state building about to be dropped off will have more or less potential energy than a ball on the ground?
A: more

Question: The more basic a solution is, the closer its pH value will be to 14. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are acidic or basic ): Ian decreases the pH of his water. Its pH value becomes more acidic or basic?
Answer: acidic

*Question*
The more curved the surface of a lens is, the more it refracts light. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are less light? or more light ): Compared to the curved lenses of a pair of binoculars, would a large flat sheet of glass refract less light? or more light?
**Answer**
less light?

(Q).
Water becomes more dense when it is colder and when it has more salt. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are ocean water or distilled water? ): Given two equal measures of water by volume, which would be lighter ocean water or distilled water??
(A).
distilled water?