Answer the question based on the following text. Question: Mona loves to travel the world. She has been to nearly every country. If she notices that some countries appear to be cooler then others, what can she determine about their proximity to the equator farther away or closer? Text: Areas near the equator are warmer than areas near the poles because they receive more direct sunlight.
farther away

Answer the question based on the following text. Question: John was looking in the microscope at some very small objects. What he observed was that the larger number of carbon atoms he saw, the number of isomers would quickly increase or decrease? Text: As you increase the number of carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon, the number of isomers quickly increases.
decrease

Answer the question based on the following text. Question: Ian's town had more deaths this year since the food supply changed, which means that this year the food amounts were increased or decreased? Text: More recently, the death rate has fallen because of the availability of more food and medical advances.
decreased

Answer the question based on the following text. Question: If Mona is flying her plane in the stratosphere on a journey and she moves lower in the stratosphere, what happens to the temperatures her plane experiences they increase or they decrease? Text: The stratosphere contains the ozone layer, the temperatures increase as altitude increases.
they decrease