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: If Jim samples water that is close to the shore and water that is far from the shore, which sample will contain less nutrients?
Answer: water far from shore

Answer: Water near shore generally has more dissolved nutrients than water farther from shore.

Question: Question: Tony wanted to prevent cramps by not warming up. This _____ blood flow to his muscles.
Answer: decreases

Answer: Warming up exercises increases the blood flow to the muscles and increases the heart rate.

Question: Question: Kathy did some experiments on two different alkanes and one of the alkanes had twice as many carbon atoms than the other. She would notice that which alkane would require a lower temperature to melt
Answer: alkane with fewer carbon atoms

Answer:
Alkanes with more carbon atoms have higher boiling and melting points, so some of them are solids at room temperature.