Air temperatures fluctuate less between day and night and between seasons in places that are closer to a large body of water like the ocean or the San Francisco Bay, than in places that are further away. Use the properties of water to explain this phenomenon

Air temperatures fluctuate less between day and night and between seasons in places that are closer to a large body of water like the ocean or the San Francisco Bay, than in places that are further away. Use the properties of water to explain this phenomenon

Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)

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Chapter13: Early Life Forms And The Viruses

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