Detailed Instructions: You are given a short paragraph, a question and two choices to answer from. Choose the correct answer based on the paragraph and write the answer(not the key).
See one example below:
Problem: Paragraph: Many of the worlds people live with water scarcity, and that percentage will increase as populations increase and climate changes.
Question: John's town used to have lots of water, back when there were only a few hundred people. However, now that the town holds several thousand people, the water availability is
Choices: A)scarce
B)plentiful
Solution: scarce
Explanation: Based on the information given in the paragraph, population growth will make water more scarce, so that is the correct answer.

Problem: Paragraph: In the mesosphere, temperature decreases as altitude increases.
Question: Mikey is studying the mesosphere. He is looking at temperatures at various altitudes within this layer of the atmosphere. If he took the temperature at 31 miles above the Earth's surface, and then again at 40 miles above the Earth's surface, the temperature would be lower at a height of
Choices: A)31 miles
B)40 miles
Solution:
40 miles