Which heats up faster, soil or sand?

MadSci Network: Agricultural Sciences

Subject: Which heats up faster, soil or sand?

Date: Thu Apr 1 22:00:55 2004
Posted by Nick Campbell
Grade level: 10-12 School: Barker College
City: Sydney State/Province: NSW Country: Australia
Area of science: Agricultural Sciences
ID: 1080878455.Ag

Message:


I'm asking this question as i need an idea as to what experiment to do to show 
which heats up faster: sand or soil. I'm studying this at the moment. I also 
do not understand what is behind the heating up of these 2 materials. For e.g. 
why does soil heat up faster etc?

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