Land heats and cools more rapidly than oceans because of
A. land's high specific heat encourages temperature changes.
B. land's great transparency encourages temperature changes.
C. lack of mixing in soil or rock layers.
D. abundance of latent heat available to directly warm land.
Answer: C
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