Question: Answer the question based on the following text.  Question:   As we go closer to shore, we normally will encounter more or less dissolved nutrients?    Text:  Therefore, water nearer shore usually contains more dissolved nutrients than water farther from shore.
Answer: more

Question: Answer the question based on the following text.  Question:   Noah has noticed that the galaxies are expanding. This will make the galaxies nearer or further apart.?    Text:  As the Universe expands, galaxies move further and further apart.
Answer: further apart.

Question: Answer the question based on the following text.  Question:   Steel has a lower or higher melting point than lead because it has less branching?    Text:  The more branching there is in isomers, the lower the boiling and melting points are.
Answer:
higher