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: Sarah's plants have been struggling to photosynthesize regularly, so that means that the plants now produce food in amounts that are 
 Answer: lesser

Answer: Less photosynthesis means that plants and phytoplankton produce less food.


Question: Question: John was working on a chemistry project. He found that the closer to ph 14 the substance was, the substance's basicness became 
 Answer: Greater

Answer: The closer to pH 14, the more strongly basic the solution.


Question: Question: A big cow, compared to a calf, will have more atoms and therefore, the thermal energy of the larger cow is 
 Answer: greater

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