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.

Input: Consider Input: Question: Dan is looking at shells that will be bad candidates for fossilization. He chooses the shells that are
Answer: softer

Output: 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.

Input: Consider Input: Question: If Jim climbs to the bottom of a mountain and takes the temperature after taking the temperature at the top of the mountain, which area will he get a higher reading at?
Answer: bottom of the mountain

Output: The surface is heated by the Sun and some of that heat radiates back into the air. This makes the temperature higher near the surface than at higher altitudes.

Input: Consider Input: Question: Jeff was pushing a steel weight that weighs 25kg and a steel weight that weighs 10kg. Which weight contains more thermal energy?
Answer: 25kg
Output: An object with more mass has greater thermal energy than an object with less mass because it has more atoms.