1. What is the difference between weather and climate?
2. Explain in your own words how the heat capacity of water makes any body of water a good heat sink.
3. Describe how warm water at the surface of a lake or ocean mixes with deeper, cooler water.
4. Why do areas close to large bodies of water have milder climates than inland areas?
Answers
Explanation:
1]Weather refers to short term atmospheric conditions while climate is the weather of a specific region averaged over a long period of time.
2\]water has a higher heat capacity than soil. Therefore, water must absorb more thermal energy to warm up than the soil.
3]Cold, salty water sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
Cold water has a higher density than warm water. Water gets colder with depth because cold, salty ocean water sinks to the bottom of the ocean basins below the less dense warmer water near the surface.
4]Large bodies of water, such as oceans, seas and large lakes, can affect the climate of an area. Water heats and cools more slowly than landmasses. Therefore, the coastal regions will stay cooler in summer and warmer in winter, thus creating a more moderate climate with a narrower temperature range.
Answer:
Weather-Weather is weather
and climate is climate
DIFFERENCE-spelling and words of both are different