What get hotter faster, soil or sand?

Answer 1

Sand--have you ever walked on a beach?

Answer 2

Sand

Answer 3

If you’ve ever been out in the hot summer sun for any length of time, you know that it makes you pretty darn hot. The sands in the beach gets very hot and walking bare foot becomes a painful experience. While sands in the beach are hot enough to cook an egg, water may still be cold. After sunset sands loose their heat very fast while the water is still warm. Why does the sand become hot or looses heat so fast, while water is much slower in gaining and loosing heat?

Answer 4

It would depend on the type of rock that was in the sand, for instnace, it it was at the beach, then phosphate from the ocean would take a lot longer to get warmer, than sand from a bank or something like that. Dirt is the same thing, depending on the composition, the rate of temperature increase would vary greatly.

Answer 5

Sand I'm sure. Think about the desert. The sand's hot there. Soil doesn't really get that hot.

Answer 6

I would say sand because the salt would draw the moisture out faster, therefore making it hotter faster. Soil would hold moisture much longer keeping it cooler for longer.

Answer 7

The reason why soil would take longer than dry sand to heat up is because of its moisture content. Water has a high specific heat capacity, meaning that it takes more energy to raise its temperature for a given mass than many other ordinary substances.

Answer 8

Do you mean "What gets hot faster, soil or sand?" If thats what you're trying to communicate sand gets hot faster.

Answer 9

Sand - there is less moister in sand than soil.

Answer 10

sand