How can you use these materials to test whether land or water heats faster? Materials:
sand
water
heat lamps
thermometers
cups

Put sand in one cup and water in the other. Put two heat lamps at equal height and under each one put the water and sand, this must be done at the same exact time. Set a timer for 5, then 10, then 15, and so forth minutes. Each time measure the temperature of each with the thermometers and write the down. Have a certain temperature you want them to get to and see which gets to it quicker. Then set a new temp 3 times to see if the answer is consistent.

Explanation:

Doing this would test whether land or water heats quicker.

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).