Study the picture and answer the question.
How does this ‘moderate’ the temperature of such a place ?
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Explanation:
Water has a very high heat capacity. It takes a lot of heat energy to cause a relatively small change in temperature. Water also has a very heat of fusion and heat of vaporization, so when the addition or subtraction of heat causes a phase change in water, that energy shows up as an increase or decrease in the amount of ice or vapor in the system, rather than an increase or decrease in the temperature of the system.
So...
Land next to a large body of water has a more moderate temperature because of this.
If you add heat to an environment near a large body of water, some of the added heat will go to evaporating water. This will keep the temperature lower than it otherwise would be. Or if you pull heat out, water vapor will condense and dump heat into the air, keeping the temperature higher than it otherwise would be.
Similarly, a large body of ice will absorb heat, melting some water and keeping the surrounding area cooler than would otherwise be the case. When you drop the temperature of a body of water near the freezing point, some of the water will freeze, dumping heat into the surrounding environment, so the temperature will stay higher than it otherwise would.
ANSWER:
The density of water is much higher than the density of air. Think about heat. Heating air is faster than heating a similar volume of water. The water resists this thermal change better than air and is more likely to retain the heat applied to its surface area. It will take longer to extract temperature from liquid water than the gas, air at the same pressure.