How does land affect water?

Answer 1

Land heats more rapidly than water (not the other way around, as suggested by one of the other responders) because it has a lower heat capacity. That is, it takes less heat energy to raise land temperature one degree than it takes to raise water temperature one degree. This is why places near oceans tend to have milder climates, by the way.

Anyway, land affects water by warming and cooling faster, which affects the overlying air, and and providing it with a surface contact which can transfer heat to and from it. In other words, land affects water through the way it affects air movements most of all.

Answer 2

For the same area of water over land (in small lakes and ponds) and over sea,evaporation of water is more over land as land quickly absorbs the Sun's radiation and passes on to water.In fact water only affects land more than land affecting water.

Answer 3

um... when air over land heats up, it rises and is replaced by cooler air and since the water over land changes temperature faster than air over water, the air over the water replaces the cool air and creates a sea-breeze and a small convection current and vise-versa (however you spell it)