Consider an evaporative event in a shallow and well-mixed basin of ocean water.

Over the course of a day, water evaporates from the basin. How does the temperature of the basin water change, due to the evaporation?

The temperature of the basin water decreases

The temperature of the basin water increases

The temperature of the basin water remains the same

The temperature of the basin water decreases

Explanation:

Evaporation from the seas is the essential system supporting the surface-to-air part of the water cycle. The considerable surface territory of the waters gives a chance to massive scale dissipation to happen. On a worldwide scale, the measure of water vanishing is equivalent to the standard of water conveyed to the Earth as precipitation. This varies topographically, however. Evaporation is more predominant over the seas than rainfall, while over the land, precipitation routinely surpasses vanishing. A high amount of the water that dissipates from the seas falls once again into the waters as precipitation.