Question

We would expect the correlation between smoking and lung cancer to be _____, whereas we would expect the correlation between mountain elevation and temperature to be _____. (note: the higher you go on a mountain the colder it gets, as you go higher on the mountain the temperature gets lower.)

Answer 1

the first one is positive because you would expect lung cancer to increase along with smoking.
the second is negative because you would expect temperature to decrease as you go higher.