Soil heats up much faster than water when the two are exposed to sunlight. Use that fact and your understanding of heat transfer to predict which way the wind will blow near the surface of the earth as the sun rises near the seashore.
A) The surface wind will blow from the land toward the water.
B) The surface wind will blow alternately back and forth along the shore, parallel to the boundary between land and water. It will reverse directions every few minutes.
C) The surface wind will blow steadily in one direction along the shore, parallel to the boundary between land and water.
D) The surface wind will blow from the water toward the land.

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As the sun rises, the land heats up faster than the water. This causes the air above the land to warm up, expand, and rise, creating a low-pressure area. Cooler, denser air from over the water moves in to replace it, resulting in a wind blowing from the water toward the land, known as a sea breeze.

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