AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Solution: Land breeze : blowing breeze from land towards the sea is called a land breeze. They are formed during the night when sea water and land both lose heat, specific heat capacity of land being very low as compared to that of sea water, land loses heat energy fast and cools more rapidly as compared to the sea.

Detailed explanation-2: -Note: Land has lower heat capacity and requires less heat to increase its temperature and water has higher heat capacity and requires more heat to increase its temperature. Hence land heats up and cools down faster than water.

Detailed explanation-3: -This is because land has a smaller “heat capacity” than water, which means it needs less heat to raise its temperature.

Detailed explanation-4: -The heat capacity is the product of the specific heat and the mass (in g) of the material. Oceans have a greater heat capacity than land because the specific heat of water is greater than that of dry soil and because a mixing of the upper ocean results in a much larger mass of water being heated than land.

Detailed explanation-5: -For a given amount of water and soil, if the soil requires less heat to raise the temperature by 1∘ C, it means that it has low specific heat capacity than water. Thus, the temperature of land rises faster than that of the sea because the specific heat of soil is lesser than water.