Question: The Earth travels faster in its elliptical orbit when it is closer to the Sun than when it is farther away.  If the Earth is orbiting the Sun and it begins to move farther from it, what happens the speed the Earth is moving increase or decrease?
Answer: decrease

Question: If you are standing on the shore and a ship is going out to sea, the ship gets smaller as it moves further away from you.  Rita walks closer to Sue. From Sue's perspective, Rita will shrink or grow?
Answer: grow

Question: The density of the atmosphere decreases with an increase in the height above sea level (altitude).  What would happen to the atmosphere as Jim climbed lower down a mountain it would become less dense or it would become more dense?
Answer:
it would become more dense