(a) What is evaporation? State the various factors which affect evaporation.(b) Why does evaporation cool a liquid?


(a) The process by which a liquid changes into vapour form, below its boiling point is known as Evaporation.
The various factors that affect evaporation are:
  1. Temperature
  2. Surface area
  3. Humidity
  4. Wind speed
(b) Evaporation is a cooling process because the energy that is taken from the remaining liquid by those molecules undergoing a phase change causes the temperature of the remaining liquid to decrease.

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