Why does the land cool faster than the sea?

Answer 1

The sea provides an equable climate. There is a greater difference between hot & cold the further from the ocean you are. The sea keeps land relatively warm in winter & relatively cool in summer. Continental interior climates are more extreme. Land, rock & soil & vegetation & so on gets warm & stays warm as the sun affects it, whereas the sea absorbs the heat without change, or as much change, as land. Even in the hottest desert just under the surface of the sand the temperature is markedly different to the surface. Quite why a solid is affected by heat more tangibly than the liquid in this case might take a better physicist than me to explain....

Answer 2

land, or a solid, has molecules that are closer together than a liquid. This allows for better heat transfer capabilities. Heat transfers in 3 ways. Convection (transfer through a liquid), conduction (transfer through a solid) and radiation (transfer through a gas). Think of a pool table with all the balls tightly in a rack. When you hit the balls with the cue ball, they scatter easily. If they were not so tightly packed, they would not scatter as well. This is the same principle with transferring heat.

Answer 3

I think so........... lets get technical. When you have a jet afterburner over a pot of ice it boils in like 3 seconds. If you have a pot of dirt over a jet afterburner it will take like 30 seconds for it to change into a hot lava type of thing. so water would take less time to cool down because it takes less time to burn. and land takes a longer time to burn so it would take longer to cool down. I don't really know the answer but it seems corect to me.

Answer 4

It is because denser materials absorb more heat than not so dense materials. Land > Sea

Answer 5

No. Water has a high specific heat, so it takes longer to get warm, or to cool, than most other substances.

Answer 6

yes it does