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 it becomes less humid outside people are _____ to sweat. 
 Answer: less likely

A: As humidity increases, the water potential gradient across the inside and outside the leaf become more equal, and so the rate of transpiration decreases.
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Q: Question: Compared to a ripple in a pond caused by a drop of rain, would a wave in the ocean have 
 Answer: more distantly spaced particles in its rarefactions

A: Places where particles of a medium crowd closer together are called compressions, and places where the particles spread farther apart are called rarefactions. The more energy the wave has, the closer together the particles are in compressions and the farther apart they are in rarefactions.
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Q: Question: Eric saw a shell of a snail that was very common in fossil form. Compared to one that is more rare, the common snail has a shell that is _____ hard. 
 Answer: more

A:
Hard shells fossilize more readily than soft bodied organisms, as they are better at resisting decay, take significantly longer to break down, and have a greater chance of surviving burial under layers of sediment.
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