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8. Most of the Earth’s surface is covered in water so most of the energy from the sun is absorbed by water. Explain why the high specific heat of water helps the Earth from getting too hot.

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the water soaks up a huge amount of heat thereby regulating temperature, it also helps with cold mitigation as it will release of lot of heat energy

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