Use information from the paragraph to answer the question. Paragraph : Thicker wires offer less resistance. Question: Jill had two wires in her lab, one was twice the thickness of the other and she measured the resistance of each. She saw that the thicker or thinner one showed less resistance?
thicker

Use information from the paragraph to answer the question. Paragraph : More recently, the death rate has fallen because of the availability of more food and medical advances. Question: In modern times, there is better medicine. This means there is a lower or higher death rate?
lower

Q: Use information from the paragraph to answer the question. Paragraph : For a given medium such as air, sound has a slower speed at lower temperatures. Question: When you are talking to someone in the snow the sound will travel faster or slower?
A: slower

Question: Use information from the paragraph to answer the question. Paragraph : As humidity increases, the water potential gradient across the inside and outside the leaf become more equal, and so the rate of transpiration decreases. Question: As the air becomes drier, transpiration of a leaf will increase or decrease?
Answer: increase

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Use information from the paragraph to answer the question. Paragraph : A fluid exerts pressure in all directions, but the pressure is greater at greater depth. Question: Milo loves to dive deep into the ocean. Does he experience more pressure diving at 10 meters or at 100 meters 10 meters or 100 meters?
**Answer**
100 meters

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Use information from the paragraph to answer the question. Paragraph : As the Universe expands, galaxies move further and further apart. Question: The decreasing distances between galaxies indicates the Universe is expanding or contracting?
**Answer**
contracting