When your brain senses that your body temperature is increasing, it sends messages to the blood vessels in the skin to increase in diameter. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are narrowing or widening ): A person with a low body temperature will have narrowing or widening of the blood vessels in the skin?
widening

Most nutrients are washed into ocean water from land. Therefore, water closer to shore tends to have more nutrients. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are few nutrients or many nutrients ): Water that is far from a lot of plants has few nutrients or many nutrients?
few nutrients

Q: Objects with greater mass have a stronger force of gravity between them. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are Small planet or Large planet ): An asteroid traveled equal distance between a small massed planet and a large massed planet and got caught by one of their gravitational pulls. Which one is more likely to have caught the asteroid Small planet or Large planet?
A: Large planet

Question: In the thermosphere, temperatures increase as altitude increases. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are increase or or decrease? ): If a person should ascend into the thermosphere from the ground, would the air temperature increase or or decrease??
Answer: increase or

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The water table is higher when there is a lot of rain and lower when the weather is dry. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are Higher or Lower ): John was watching the effects of weather on the groundwater in his area. He observed that as the amount of rain decreased, the level of the water table was Higher or Lower?
**Answer**
Lower

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Lower rock layers were laid down earlier, so they are assumed to contain older fossils. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are younger or older ): As we dig shallower into rocks they get younger or older?
**Answer**
younger