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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: 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
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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.

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Question: If a device were to become less efficient, it would produce _____ usable energy.
Answer: less
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The more efficient a device is, the greater the percentage of usable energy it produces.

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Question: Jim loves to build circuits. One day he builds a circuit that has more resistors then any other circuit he has built. Since the circuit has more resistors the amount of current in the circuit is
Answer: reduced
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We also saw that adding resistors to a series circuit increases the total resistance of the circuit, causing the current to decrease.