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.

[Q]: Question: When Sarah wants to lower the amount of electrons that are there, she will use energy at amounts that are 
 Answer: lesser
[A]: Less energy is also needed to remove electrons from larger atoms in the same group of the periodic table.


[Q]: Question: Jim puts his water in the oven for later. The molecules in the liquid 
 Answer: speed up
[A]: When a volume of water is cooled, the molecules move less vigorously, so same number of molecules takes up less space and the water is denser.


[Q]: Question: Polly was adding resistors to a circuit. Increasing the resistance in this series circuit will cause the total current to 
 Answer: increase
[A]:
If we increase the resistance in a series circuit, by adding more resistors, then the total current decreases.