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.

Question: Milo is trying to heat his room with a space heater. If he turns up the thermostat to a hotter setting, which is happening to the energy the heater is producing? 
 Answer: increasing
Bigger stars produce more energy, so their surfaces are hotter.

Question: When Dean went to the top of the mountain and reached the peak, he noticed that the top of the mountain, compared to the bottom, had snow in amounts that were 
 Answer: larger
Glaciers often form in the mountains because higher altitudes are colder and more likely to have snow that falls and collects.

Question: Jim's skin was noticeably lighter than his friend Matt's skin. This means that _____ produces more melanin. 
 Answer: Matt

However, the melanocytes of people with darker skin produce more melanin.