Ques: Answer the question based on the following text. Question: Eric noticed a glacier outside his boat shrinking over time. The Earth's temperature is likely decreasing or increasing? Text: The glaciers on Earth are getting smaller and smaller as Earths temperature rises.
Ans: increasing

Ques: Answer the question based on the following text. Question: If Mona is creating a membrane to filter out some dirty water and she creates fewer folds in the membrane, what happens to the total surface area of that membrane increases or decreases? Text: The folds present in the membrane increase the surface area allowing more ribosomes to be present on the ER, thereby allowing greater protein production.
Ans: decreases

Ques: Answer the question based on the following text. Question: Milo loves to dig wells for a living. If he needs to dig a well deeper to reach water, what does that do to the money and energy it takes to dig the well increases or decreases? Text: As the water is pumped out, the water table slowly falls, requiring wells to be dug deeper, which takes more money and energy.
Ans: increases

Ques: Answer the question based on the following text. Question: Polly was removing resistors from a circuit. Decreasing the resistance in this series circuit will cause the total current to increase or decrease? Text: If we increase the resistance in a series circuit, by adding more resistors, then the total current decreases.
Ans:
decrease