Why is it that it doesn't get hot, but the sand will (at beaches) and the ground will heat up from the sun but not the water in the ocean?
2006-08-17 14:42:05 · 14 answers · asked by uglyvanity 3 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I wanna say its because the ocean is a huge body of water that is always moving...unlike a swimming pool which will heat up from the sun...why because it isnt large and its confined.
2006-08-17 14:52:08 · answer #1 · answered by Peg L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hydrogen-containing molecules like ethanol, ammonia, and water have powerful, intermolecular hydrogen bonds when in their liquid phase. These bonds provide yet another place where kinetic (heat) energy is stored.
Water has a much higher specific heat than sand as shown below.
[Substance][Phase][joules per gram per degree-kelvin]
Water (liquid) (25 °C) 4.1813
Sand solid 0.835
This means more energy is required to increase the temperature of each gram.
Also water reflects more rays than sand.
Water conducts heat and electricity faster than sand.
This means the heat is absorbed by the colder parts of the oceans many miles away.
PS: There is a Physics section in the Science and Math Category.
2006-08-19 01:58:00 · answer #2 · answered by Eric Inri 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Compare Acapulco, Mexico water tempeature (82 degrees F) with Tijuana, Mexico tempeature (60 degrees F). That is warming up?
The body of water is much deeper and conducts heat much better than earth (sand). Then then sand radiates heat more rapidly than the water. Heat rises, and that is the reason that in the day time there is a breeze from the ocean in the day and from the land in the night.
That is my answer from Washington, D.C.
2006-08-17 14:52:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The heat can only penetrate so far and then the water gets colder as you get deeper. All of that cold water keeps the surface temperature down.
If you take a shallow pan of water and a bucket full of water outside you will be able to demonstrate the same effect.
The shallow pan will get hot and the bucket will be much cooler.
2006-08-17 21:49:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the salt in the water keeps th water from heating up. The ocean would heat up, but it would have to be a lot hotter then it is now, like...250 degrees.
2006-08-17 14:49:15 · answer #5 · answered by love_life_jett 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The heat capacity is larger for the water. Also, the heat exchange occurs faster in water than in sand.
2006-08-17 14:50:01 · answer #6 · answered by Ivan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are currents in the oceans of the world which carry cold water towards the tropics and others warm water towards the poles.
2006-08-17 14:51:21 · answer #7 · answered by flugelberry 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Earth is in constant conditions. Ocean covers Earth approximately evenly. Actually, ocean can evaporate when the Sun will become a Red Giant
2006-08-17 15:04:23 · answer #8 · answered by Duke 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the atlantic ocean along the coast of SC get warm...like bath water warm... but there is too much to heat for it to get extremely hot.
2006-08-17 14:58:23 · answer #9 · answered by charmedgal11 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where I live, the Gulf of Mexico gets as warm as bath water. We don't like that, it feeds hurricanes.
2006-08-17 16:35:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋