instruction:
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:
Question: If Mona is observing two objects and she realizes that one has a smaller mass then the other, what does that tell her about that object's thermal energy?
Answer: it's smaller
answer:
An object with more mass has greater thermal energy than an object with less mass because it has more atoms.

question:
Question: John was playing with alkanes in his lab. If he decreased the amount of carbon atoms in an alkane, what would happen to the boiling point of that alkane?
Answer: decrease?
answer:
Alkanes with more carbon atoms have higher boiling and melting points, so some of them are solids at room temperature.

question:
Question: An area with a light focus of the Sun's rays will likely be
Answer: cool
answer:
The more focused the Suns rays are, the more energy an area receives and the warmer it is.