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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 2#️⃣ Question 9🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

In a particular endothermic species, heat loss is roughly proportional to an individual's surface area and basal metabolic rate is roughly proportional to its volume. How would one expect a population of this species which lives at the poles to differ from a population that lives near the equator, on average?

W) Smaller body size, shorter appendages
X) Smaller body size, longer appendages
Y) Larger body size, shorter appendages
Z) Larger body size, longer appendages
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