Land Heats and Cools More Rapidly Than Oceans Because of

question 28

Multiple Choice

Land heats and cools more rapidly than oceans because of

• A)land's great transparency encourages temperature changes.
• B)abundance of latent heat available to directly warm land.
• C)land's high specific heat encourages temperature changes.
• D)lack of mixing in soil or rock layers.

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