The extremely low surface temperatures in the Antarctic in July (the Southern Hemisphere's winter) clearly demonstrate the principle of ________

A) adiabatic cooling
B) latitudinal differentiation
C) greater cooling of land than water
D) lapse rates
E) aphelion


Answer: C

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