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A city that has an elevation of -17 meters is closer to sea level than a city that has an elevation of -40 meters.

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False
Explanation:
At sea level, elevation is 0. This means that we can portray sea level as being the midpoint of distances below sea level and distances above sea level.
Thus, a distance of 1 m below sea level = - 1 is equivalent to a distance of 1 m above sea level albeit in opposite directions.
Hence, an elevation of 15m above sea level is greater in distance Than an elevation of - 10 m below sea level because the absolute value of 15 is greater than the absolute value of 10.
|15 - 0|= 15
|-10 - 0| = 10
Hence, elevation of - 10 below Sea level is closer to sea level than elevation of 15 above sea level
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