In this task, you are given a question and answer for that. The answer will fill in the blank or will complete the unfinished question. Your task is to provide an explanation based on the given question or fill-in-the-blank statement, and answer.
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Question: Question: Olive and Jean were collecting rocks during a hike, they collected too many rocks so the two girls decided to leave some rocks behind to come back to later. Olive decided to bury her rocks in the dirt, and Jean decided to leave hers in a ditch in the sun. When they returned a week later, which girl's rocks changed the most? 
 Answer: Olive

Answer: With more surfaces of the rocks exposed, there are more places for chemical weathering to occur.


Question: Question: Places that are near the middle of earth are generally 
 Answer: warmer

Answer: Areas near the equator are warmer than areas near the poles because they receive more direct sunlight.


Question: Question: If Mona is observing two objects and she realizes that one has a smaller mass then the other, what does that tell her about that object's thermal energy? 
 Answer: it's smaller

Answer:
An object with more mass has greater thermal energy than an object with less mass because it has more atoms.