Why do islands surrounded by water not have the same temperature extremes that interiors of continents do?

Question

Why does the direction of prevailing wind change from day to night at the seashore?

Discuss at least one other example in which water’s properties are useful to people.

Answer 1

Water absorbs great amounts of heat, and releases it only very slowly.  Islands thus stay warmer during the night. The also stay cooler during the day.  Thus, their temperatures are move even than a large land mass (like the USA).

The water stays warm during the night, and cool during the day.  Hot air rises.  So at night the ocean heats the air iver it, and it rises' That sucks the cooler air over the ground out towards the ocean.

In the daytime the land is hotter, the air over the land rises, and suck the cool air from the ocan to the land.

Fish live in water.  It's expensive to eat fish if you don't have water!

We need lots of water to drink.

Water from melting snow in the mountains comes down the rivers, and can be used to generate electricity.

Water from oceans,and even evaporation from plants, rises into the air, gets blown around, and falls as rain someplace else.