Water has a high specific heat due to hydrogen bonding, which increases intermolecular forces between molecules
It is an excellent thing that water has a high heat capacity. This is especially important when heat is needed to boil food.
So they can more easily keep their temperatures relatively constant. Metabolic processes usually require pretty constant temperatures.
Life can not exist without water. Therefore, life can not exist without hydrogen bonds which attribute to many of the life creating and sustaining properties of water. Life is based on water primarily due to it's polarity, high specific heat, cohesion, and solvent properties.
It is important because if the water's heat capacity was low then the temperature would change quickly, thus affecting normal body functions. For instance, in the ocean, constantly in the heat of the sun, and yet it will only vary a degree or two. Thus protecting all of the many species that thrive in the ocean. I just learned this in biology, ...glad i could help
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Earth has life, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, much more heat, a solid surface, high amounts of water, and many other things that Uranus does not have.
The high specific heat allows water to act as a heat sink. Water will retain its temperature after absorbing large amount of heat and retain its temperature after losing equally large amount of heat. So water is essential for life.
If the ocean had a low specific heat it wouldn't be able to support life. This is because the water would be too cold.
a.] water a high specific heat capacity
The high heat of vaporization, the implication being of water, facilitates life by allowing for efficient heat transfer from an organism to the environment during overheating. This is the case for sweat in terrestrial animals, which evaporates from the skin of a warm animal. The high heat of vaporization forces the outermost layers of the epidermis to lose the equivalent amount of thermal energy, cooling the skin.
Specific heat refers to the amount of heat needed to increase the temperature of one gram of a substance by one degree Celsius. The high specific heat of water has a buffering effect on nature, thus the aquatic ecosystems are well regulated.
Life can not exist without water. Therefore, life can not exist without hydrogen bonds which attribute to many of the life creating and sustaining properties of water. Life is based on water primarily due to it's polarity, high specific heat, cohesion, and solvent properties.
Water is able to absorb a lot of energy before it begins to heat, which means that the oceans are fairly stable in temperature. This has led to development of life in the waters. Additionally, this means that surface water is stable and available for consumption.
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A large body of water takes longer to warm up (in Summer) and to cool down (in Winter). Therefore the range of extreme temperature fluctuation tends to even out to an average over the four seasons.
Water is an important compound and necessary for life on Earth. It composes about 75% of the human body. In addition, water is known as the 'universal solvent,' has a high specific heat capacity and heat of vaporization, is polar, has a high surface tension, and can act as either an acid or base in solvent. Other important properties exist, and the list is quite extensive.
The main properties of water: density, freezing point, boiling point, specific heat, polar covalent bonds, no smell, colourless, associated molecules by hydrogen bonds, surface tension, ability as solvent, etc.
Heat stroke can be life threatening and because the percentage of victims dying from heat stroke is very high, immediate medical attention is critical when problems first begin.