Situation: suppose you cooked a pasta dish for dinner that you top with a sauce containing large chunks of tomatoes. Both the pasta and the sauce had been brought to boiling temperature for a few minutes until ready to eat. You then arrange the steaming hot pasta with sauce on a plate, let it rest for a minute and then start eating. Based on this situation, answer the following questions using physical reasoning.
a) As you start eating, you realize that the tomato chunks are still very hot; warmer than the pasta. Explain why.
b) Related to (a), if the pasta and the tomato chunks were to represent the thermal properties of a large lake and of a volume of wet soil, which one would be the lake (and why)?