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A geyser is a natural geological phenomenon where hot water and steam are ejected from the ground due to underground volcanic activity. This occurs when water is heated deep within the earth and builds up pressure until it is forcefully expelled through a vent in the ground.

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Why do people sprinkle water on a ground on a hot day?

Sprinkling water on the ground on a hot day creates evaporation, which absorbs heat and cools the surrounding area. This can help to lower the temperature and make it more bearable in hot weather.


Is water in the ground hot?

Water in the ground can be hot, depending on its depth and proximity to heat sources like magma chambers or geothermal activity. This hot water can be tapped into for geothermal energy or used for heating purposes in some regions.


What causes water to rise out of the ground in hot spring?

Hot springs are formed when geothermally heated water rises to the surface through fractures in the Earth's crust. This water is heated deep underground by the Earth's internal heat, then travels through fractures and emerges as a hot spring due to the pressure from the heated water wanting to rise to the surface.


What are the four steps in geothermal energy?

Drilling wells to access hot water or steam underground. Extracting the hot water or steam to the surface. Using the heat to drive turbines and produce electricity. Reinjecting the cooled water back into the ground to sustain the resource.


How are hot springs formed?

Deep in the earth, beneath your feet, the molten rock of the earth's interior transmits heat upward through sold rock to ground water which has penetrated to that depth. This extremely hot water then forces its way upward through fissures and fractures, warming rocks and water as it goes. Where the hot water can escape at the ground surface, a hot spring is formed. Extremely hot water has properties important to the development of a hot spring's plumbing system. First, its lower density allows it to rise more easily through small channels. Second, it is a much better solvent than is cooler water; it dissolves astounding amounts of silica, a common component of volcanic rock. In this way, channels are enlarged while others are soon clogged with new deposits. The dissolved minerals are rapidly deposited around the hot springs and geysers as the water cools and can no longer hold it in solution. Hot springs differ from geysers in that their underground systems allow rapid circulation of water. The rising hot water dissipates heat energy by evaporation or runoff, while convection currents return the cooler water to the underground system, keeping it in equilibrium.

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What is the capitol of Iceland heated by?

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What are the similarities between cold war and hot war?

A hot war is shooting at each other. A cold war is facing each other but NOT Shooting.


Is a hot spring water and steam the erupts from the ground?

Yep!


Why do people sprinkle water on a ground on a hot day?

Sprinkling water on the ground on a hot day creates evaporation, which absorbs heat and cools the surrounding area. This can help to lower the temperature and make it more bearable in hot weather.


What is a natural hot spring that occasionally sprays steam and water about the ground?

e) A natural hot spring that occasionally sprays hot water and streams? Q


Is water in the ground hot?

Water in the ground can be hot, depending on its depth and proximity to heat sources like magma chambers or geothermal activity. This hot water can be tapped into for geothermal energy or used for heating purposes in some regions.


Is a cold to hot water metal band required for residential construction to ground the hot water pipe?

Depends where you are. In British Columbia, not required.


Why is it hard to get water in hot countries?

because the heat dries up all of the water in the ground


Why is ground wire connected to hot water connection on water heater?

So the tank is grounded.


Some water coming out of the ground contains chemicals. It is hot what is this called?

This type of water is called spring water.