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Land heats up and cools down the slowest. The reason for this is because it takes little energy to heat air compared to what it takes to heat land. Land has a higher heat capacity than air. That means it takes more thermal (heat) energy to raise the temperature of a volume of earth a couple of degrees than it does to raise the temperature of the same volume of air a couple of degrees. To heat land rather than air, it takes more heat energy and more time. As regards cooling, it takes more time to cool land than air because it takes more time for the heat energy to get out of the land. You've experienced "heat capacity" before. If you touch a metal handrail on a hot day, it burns a bit. There is a lot of heat in that metal handrail, and it is being transferred to your hand. And transferred, and transferred. All that heat in there wants to get into your cooler hand. The heat capacity of metal is fairly high. It holds a lot of heat. Land has a lot of heat capacity, too.
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What heats and cools fastest in a 24 hour period land or water?
Land.
How does the absorption of energy from the sun differ from land and water?
Land absorbs heat energy from the sun quickly, but it also releases the heat (cools down) more quickly than water. Water reflects more of the energy than land does, so it takes longer to warm. Water also holds the heat longer than land. This is why the sea is warmer for swimming at the very end of summer, even when the land is cooling.
What cause a sea breeze?
When it's in the day, the land heats up faster than the water in the sea, so hot air rises from the land and cold air from the sea takes its place. So this results in sea breeze.
When rolling or sliding a box down a slope where will it land?
At the bottom of the slope?
Is it safer to land with or against the wind?
It's safer to land against the wind. When you do that, the wind speed is subtracted from your air speed to equal your ground speed. Just before you touch down, the ground is whizzing by under you slower, and after you touch down, you need less distance to slow down and stop.
What is produced because land heats up and cools down quickly?
wind
What heats and cools fastest in a 24 hour period land or water?
Land.
What is heats and cools more slowly than land?
Water
Why does land heats and cools faster than water?
beacause its solid
Why are sand and land breezes caused?
They are cause because land heats and cools more quickly.
What heats up and cools down quickly?
land because in the day land gets easily heated by the sun very quickly and then loses all its heat in minutes after nightfall
What best explains the differences in temperature between the ocean and the sand?
Water both heats up and cools down at a slower rate than land.
What best explains the difference in temperature between the ocean and the sand?
Water both heats up and cools down at a slower rate than land.
How can land cause weather?
Land heats up and cools down much faster than water, so when the suns rays hit land and heat it up, the land heats up the air surrounding it causing it to rise up in the atmosphere. Then once the air has risen to a high enough point it cools, creating clouds and, depending on the amount of water vapor in the air, rain.
Which is the cause of a sea breeze?
Land heats and cools more quickly than water.
Does land lose heat faster than water?
Soil is solid. Its molecules are close to one another so it heats faster. It also cools faster. Water is liquid. Molecules in liquids are farther apart so water heats more slowly............ Andre Ü
Are sea and land breezes caused because the land heats and cools more quickly than the water?
yes
