WATER Flashcards

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What is water?

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A liquid constantly moving-this makes h2 bonds, MAKING DIFFICULT TO BECOME GAS.
Providing habitats for living things
Reaction medium
Effective transport medium.

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Water density

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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.

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Water-solvent

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Water is polar.
+ and - attracted- so water molecules attracted, by clustering around.

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Water-specific high capacity

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Water-doesn’t heat up/cool easily, so stable for enzyme controlled reactions.
Aqautic need stable environment to stay in .

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High latent heat of vaporisation

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Due to held by h2 bonds, large amounts of energy needed to evaporate, which helps cool living things, to keep temp stable.

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