*Question*
Read the passage below and choose the right answer to the following question (choices are faster or slower ): Water flowing over a steeper slope moves faster and causes more erosion. Kelly built a home with a gorgeous ocean view, and he decided to level the surrounding area. As a result, erosion is occurring faster or slower?
**Answer**
slower

*Question*
Read the passage below and choose the right answer to the following question (choices are increase or decrease. ): In Life Sciences it is important to note that whenever a structure has an increased surface area, there is an increase in the functioning of that structure. A cell in a dog's large intestine grew in surface area, which allowed the cell to take in more nutrients. This means that the cell's increased surface area allowed its functioning to increase or decrease.?
**Answer**
increase

*Question*
Read the passage below and choose the right answer to the following question (choices are higher or lower ): As greenhouse gases increase, changes will be more extreme. If greenhouse gases were greatly decreased, we can expect a higher or lower chance of extreme changes?
**Answer**
lower

*Question*
Read the passage below and choose the right answer to the following question (choices are larger or smaller ): The forest habitat of elephants has also decreased in size due to humans moving in, so the numbers of the elephants have decreased. The elephants were moved to a reservation where they could thrive, since their habitat in the wild was shrunk too far. The elephant numbers were now larger or smaller?
**Answer**
smaller