What is thermal inertia?
a. The increase of heat energy
b. The propensity for a substance to resist temperature changes
c. The properties that moderate changes in temperature
d. The amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by
1? Celsius
ANS: B
Water has high thermal inertia. It resists large changes in temperature despite the addition or removal
of large amounts of heat energy. Information can be found in the section Surface Water Moderates
Global Temperature.
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