WATER Flashcards
What is water?
A liquid constantly moving-this makes h2 bonds, MAKING DIFFICULT TO BECOME GAS.
Providing habitats for living things
Reaction medium
Effective transport medium.
Water density
More dense when it becomes colder
as they align themselves to make them less dense.
ALLOWS-ice to float.
Aquatic organisms having stable environment too live in water.
Ponds-insulate against extreme conditions.
Water-solvent
Water is polar.
+ and - attracted- so water molecules attracted, by clustering around.
Water-specific high capacity
Water-doesn’t heat up/cool easily, so stable for enzyme controlled reactions.
Aqautic need stable environment to stay in .
High latent heat of vaporisation
Due to held by h2 bonds, large amounts of energy needed to evaporate, which helps cool living things, to keep temp stable.