Thicker resistors offer less resistance than thinner resistors.  Mona is creating a circuit board in her lab for work. If she decreases the thickness of the resistors on the board, what happens to the overall resistance of the circuit increases or decreases?
increases


In bigger atoms, valence electrons are farther from the nucleus.  In science class, kids learned about how when atoms are smaller, the distance between the valence electrons and the nucleus is bigger or smaller?
smaller


Q: Many observatories are built on high mountains. There is less air above the telescope, so there is less interference from the atmosphere.  If Jim moves his telescope to a location with less air above it, what will happen to the amount of interference from the atmosphere increase or decrease?
A: decrease


Question: Longer wires have more resistance than shorter wires.  A shorter wire will have more or less resistance than a longer one?
Answer: less


*Question*
If two objects have the same mass, the object with the higher temperature has greater thermal energy.  Johnny was was playing with chalk outside. His mom called him in for lunch, while he was inside his red chalk sat in the sun, and his blue chalk was in the shade. When Johnny returned outside and picked up the red and blue which had a higher temperature the red chalk or the blue chalk?
**Answer**
the red chalk


Q: Air pressure is less at higher elevations.  Marcus is climbing a mountain, and notices that it is easier to breathe than it was before. This is likely because Marcus is at a lower elevation or higher elevation?
A: lower elevation