instruction:
Write a fact related to the given fact, based on the given topic word. Note that, your fact should have at least one word in common with the given fact. All facts in this task refer to scientific facts. Your related fact must form a chain with the given fact. Chains form when two facts connect together to produce the third fact. An example of a chain is: "pesticides cause pollution" (given fact) + "pollution can harm animals" (related fact) → "pesticides can harm animals" (connected chain). Avoid creating simple paraphrases of the given fact. While your generated fact should be related to the input fact, they must describe slightly different scientific phenomena. It's okay if your related fact includes some irrelevant information, provided that it has some overlap with the given fact and it contains some words corresponding to the provided topic.
question:
Fact: harming an animal species causes that animal 's population to decrease. 
Topic: animal population decrease.
answer:
Habitat loss is the major reason for the decrease in the bird population.


question:
Fact: if an object is in the sunlight then that object will absorb solar energy. 
Topic: absorb solar energy warm.
answer:
When solar energy reaches the earth's surface it is absorbed and reradiated as heat.


question:
Fact: cold fronts cause thunderstorms as they pass by. 
Topic: cold fronts air masses.
answer:

Fronts boundaries between air masses Fronts are boundaries between air masses .