Question

Which is higher elevation : 40 feet below sea level or 14 feet below sea level ?

Answer 1

Answer:

40feet below Sea level is the higher elevation.

Answer 2

14 feet below sea level has a higher elevation than 40 feet below sea level.

To measure elevation, the sea level is treated as a reference point. It is like the 0 in mathematics.

Therefore whenever we talk about sea level we should imagine it as a number line with the sea level in place of 0.

Now in a number line, we are talking about points above 0, i.e positive points, we consider them to be higher the greater.

This means, as we move higher up the number line, the number is greater. Similarly in the context of elevation, the higher the point above the sea level, the greater the elevation.

In the case of points below 0, the higher the numbers are the lower we consider the value. This is because, the point is moving further down, making the value smaller.

Similarly in the context of elevation, the larger the value below sea level, the lower the elevation

Hence, between 40 feet below sea level and 14 feet below sea level,

14 feet below the sea level has a higher elevation, as it is higher up the elevation line.

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