What are the 6 characteristics of water that makes it valuable for living organisms?

Answer 1

Four properties of water that make it so useful to organisms is cohesive and adhesive. Also water is denser in the form of a liquid than a solid. Water is able to absorb large amounts of energy.

Answer 2

1. Water is a liquid at room temperature and over a relatively wide temperature range (0 -100°C). This wide range encompasses the annual mean temperature of most biological environments.
2. A relatively large amount of energy is required to raise the temperature of water (i.e., it has a high heat capacity). As a result of this property, large bodies of water act as buffers against extreme fluctuations in the climate, water makes as an excellent industrial coolant, and it helps protect living organisms against sudden temperature changes in the environment.
3. Water has a very high heat of vaporization. Water evaporation helps distribute heat globally; it provides an organism with the means to dissipate unwanted heat.
4. Water is a good solvent and provides a good medium for chemical reactions, including those that are biologically important. Water carries nutrients to an organism's cells and flushes away waste products, and it allows the flow of ions necessary for muscle and nerve functions in animals.
5. Liquid water has a very high surface tension, the force holding the liquid surface together. This, along with its ability to adhere to surfaces, enables the upward transport of water in plants and soil by capillary action.
6. Solid water (ice) has a lower density than liquid water at the surface of the earth. If ice were denser than liquid water, it would sink rather than float, and bodies of water in cold climates would eventually freeze solid, killing the organisms living in them.

Answer 3

1) Water molecules adopt a strangely empty-centered, polar structure when frozen, meaning that much of frozen water is empty space, meaning the solid is less dense than the liquid - resulting in the unusual phenomenon of the solid form actually floating on the liquid - one result of this is that habitats for animals can form out of water alone (polar bear burrows etc) and that air breathing animals can in fact live on frozen water as if it were dry land.

2) Water allows many elements and molecules essential to life to dissolve into it freely, allowing them to mix and recombine - this is what needs to occur within cells

3) Deep water shields life within it from any harmful rays coming from the sun/space, including UV radiation

4) Water freely dissolves oxygen, allowing aerobic respiration

Answer 4

High specific heat, density, high boiling point, and the single molecule H2O is very very small to cell membranes, it is the only polar molecule to diffuse through a cell membrane without active transport.

the water is vital to living things because it can stay in your system longer and without it you may dehidrate that is why water is vital to living things

Answer 5

6 characteristics of water that makes it valuable to living organisms:- it is a good solvent- it is not toxic- it is abundant- it is a liquid at the temperatures adequate for living organisms- water has a high specific heat- water has a capillary action

Answer 6

water is an excellent solvent for living organisms,its transparent so sun can reach the plants and animals who live underwater

Answer 7

Water is good, it is also fun, also its free, and anyone can have it, and blue.