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 Greater or Lesser ): John was looking at the weather data and making some observations. He saw that with more trees, droughts were Greater or Lesser?
Lesser

The larger the animal, the heavier the exoskeleton, making movement more difficult. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are Jim or Harry ): Harry has a pet walrus. Jim has a pet parrot. Whose pet has a heavier exoskeleton Jim or Harry?
Harry

Q: 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 near the surface or deeper down ): If Mona is excavating an archeological site and she discovers some fossils near the surface then compares them to fossils she found deeper down, which fossils will be older near the surface or deeper down?
A: deeper down

Question: In the mesosphere, temperature decreases as altitude increases. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are 31 miles or 40 miles ): 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 31 miles or 40 miles?
Answer: 40 miles

*Question*
Objects with greater mass have a stronger force of gravity. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are apple or orange ): If Mona is comparing an apple and an orange and she determines that the apple has more mass then the orange, which one has a weaker force of gravity apple or orange?
**Answer**
orange

*Question*
The more charged the objects are, the stronger the electrostatic force between them. Having read the above passage, choose the right answer to the following question (choices are increase or decrease ): If Mona is manipulating the charge of a couple of her objects, what happens to the electrostatic force if she increases the charge of one of the objects increase or decrease?
**Answer**
increase