The Significance of Water Water is a molecule composed of two elements of hydrogen covalently bonded with one element of oxygen. Because of the polarity created from the covalent bond these molecules of water are all connected with a hydrogen bond. A hydrogen bond is formed when two molecules are attracted to oppositely charged components of another molecule. A hydrogen bond has about 5% the strength of a covalent bond and is responsible for some of the unique qualities found in water. It takes a large amount of energy to break down the hydrogen bonds in water allowing it to have a high specific heat, giving water its high boiling point and allowing it to maintain a liquid form over a wide …show more content…
When water takes its solid form it is less dense then in its liquid state and in the liquid form it is less dense then in the gaseous state. This is because as water decreases in temperature it approaches its maximum density. Water is most dense at 4 degrees Celsius. This is reached while water is still in its liquid form, therefore causing ice to float on water. High specific heat is significant to life on Earth because of the ability to maintain a moderate temperature while that around it is changing. As the sun beats on water during the daytime the temperature of the water slowly rises, and during the night the warm water heats the air above it causing the climate to stay relatively the same. This is why climates near large bodies of water are more moderate. Specific heat also stabilizes the ocean waters making it suitable for marine species to sustain life in their habitats. This characteristic is useful in humans, humans being composed of 65% water, because it helps to maintain a livable body temperature. Water is a great coolant because of this factor as well, for the body, cars, etc. High surface tension is a characteristic that gives greater buoyancy support for greater loads than most liquids. This is very useful for species in their habitats that use water to travel on, without breaking through the surface. Cohesion is used by plants,
Liquid: having a consistency like that of water or oil, flowing freely but of a constant volume.
The use of chemicals in a school environment cause several issues in not only our health, but our watersheds as well. The chemicals in use in our school are those that cause damage to our health, they cause this damage with ingredients that are not completely user friendly. A watershed is a drainage basin, which is a natural depression in the earth’s surface, usually containing water, and a divider that separates different areas. Here in Colorado we have two main watersheds, but we also have several streams considered watersheds. We are in the Cache La Poudre watershed. A watershed is the transport of different water and it is what is used to drain water into other basins, or oceans or any bigger water masses. It has stream valleys that bring water to other bodies of water, in which evaporate and return to the top. This is a constant stream in which is basically recycling water, so we want to keep the water healthy and ready for us to use. In a certain quote, we understand the dangers of what we do to our watersheds with urbanization,“flooding becomes more prevalent as the area of impervious surfaces increase.” (Perlman, 2016). This quote is saying that the more surface area that was given, such as parking lots, the more runoff comes from our flooding periods. This could be a danger in our school environment, because we use several chemicals as cleaners. I found greener cleaning supplies from not only our current distributor, but one of distributor that
At the start of my journalistic investigation I stumbled upon a 2010 documentary by the explorer Wes Skiles titled Water’s Journey. The short film is available online free of charge and follows a scientific team of four as they traverse the Florida aquifer in real time. The goal of their mission was to explore and extensively map the inside of the Florida Aquifer for the first time. The four individuals on this groundbreaking mission included Tom Morris, a cave explorer and biologist, Jill Heinerth, a technical dive specialist, the Wes Skiles, and electromagnetics expert Brian Pease. Pease designed a revolutionary transmitter that was able to send signals through Florida’s solid rock and water below, which allowed for him and Skiles on the surface to actively track Morris and Heinerth as they explored the depths below.
Kate Chopin's The Awakening begins set in Grande Isle which is the summer get-away for a few families of New Orleans "upper-class". It is a community of cottages owned by the Lebrun family. Edna Pontellier and her husband Leonce summer there with there two children. This is the setting where Edna also develops a close relationship with Robert Lebrun. He is one of Madame Lebrun's sons who helps her run the cottages for the Pontellier's and the Ratingnolle's. The book begins and ends with Edna and her attraction to the water. Throughout the story water plays a symbolic part in the unfolding of Edna and her relationship to Robert and also her awakening to a new outlook on life along
In The Water Wars written by Cameron Stracher, humanity struggles to survive in a parched, dry, and post-apocalyptic Earth. The narrator, Vera, lives with his brother Will in the Republic of Illinowa, once a part of the United States. Everything in her life was normal until she and her brother decided to venture on a dangerous and perilous journey beyond their republic in order to save Kai, a boy who somehow seems to have unlimited drinking water. All the dangers and events unfolded because of one key decision made by Vera.
Water. My tongue dried, and it felt as if my stomach were turning inside out. Please, just one sip. As i waited multiple eternities for the dissatisfying taste of muddy water in my mouth,i pondered over the reasoning behind my inability to find water. drenched with sweat, i stare into a hole with microscopic amounts of water inside. I would cry if i had the power. I run with all my strength, as i spot a beehive in the distance. I cannot believe this! My luck is finally turning, i found food! As i grab and eat every bit of honey i can eat, the bees sleep. Only when i leave do they begin to leave do they wake and grow curious. Victory! Now, to find water, I thought to myself. It didn't seem possible that of all places, the forest housed no water. Then,out of the blue, i see water! Blinded by what i thought would save me, i did not realize that i traversed into a tree where snakes awaited. A hallucination. hoe kon ek so dom gewees het? As the vision wore off, it seemed like no time had passed,but, my clothes were covered with dirt and my thumb was covered in blood.
Water is essential for life as we know it on earth. It is used by plants
Many works of literature use symbols to represent abstract ideas. One symbol that is commonly used is water. Water is a viable symbol because it is versatile. It can be used to represent many different ideals because water in itself is ever changing. Water is used in many works to represent such ideals as death, life, love, betrayal, purity, holiness, and so on. Giglamesh, the Old Testament, Egyptian Poetry, and The Odyssey all have symbolized water to represent an idea portrayed in the work.
The Importance Of Water To Living Organisms Water is normally the most abundant component of any living organism. As most human cells are approximately 80% water and 60% of the human body is made up of it, it is extremely important in many different ways to both the survival and the well being of living organisms. Evolutionists believe that life probably originated in water and even today thousands of organisms make their home in it. Water also provides the medium in which all biochemical reactions take place. The importance of water to living organisms originates from its many properties including its solvent properties, its high specific heat capacity, its high latent heat of vaporization,
As I sat next to the loud river that was bursting out of the Sylvan Dam, I noticed the water was in an invariable battle with the rocks, crashing and thrashing against each other like medieval warriors scraping for land. I looked around the edges of the river to see the copiousness of colors from the trees contrasting the sinister blue water. The rapids put off a pleasant and dulcet sound that ultimately ended in me having to relieve some building pressure down the trail. After returning to my riverside view, I noticed that farther down the gleaming river, fish were jumping and flipping like delicious pancakes on a griddle. Making the split-second decision to fish, I sprinted to my 1999 black Chevy Silverado, unlatched the tailgate and snatched all of my waterproof fishing gear. Slipping on my Mossberg max 4 Camo Gander Mountain guided series waders is no easy chore. While looking like the most incapable human being ever I finally managed to slip on the foul scum smelling waders that I so dearly should have washed. Feeling like a professional mountain climber, I started scaling the steep inclement of the river bank. Stomping my insulated waders into the frigid dour murky water, I ventured my path out onto a construction of rocks forming a beautiful approach for spotting fish. I released my light green jointed shad Rapala from my St. Croix Legend Elite spinning rod and casted the shad into pooling backwater just off of my rocky approachment. Feeling the vibration of the shad through my rod, smacking against slime covered rocks and ripping through dense weedy areas. I felt aspirant to not get hung up on a rock resulting in a line break, I successfully retrieved my lure. After casting and reeling my line several times and just started zoning out, I was abruptly startled to hear a ruckus coming from the west side embankment. Glancing quickly back to the water to see where my lure was only to hear a loud splash coming from the same place where I first noticed the ruckus. Three deer, with golden brown fur coated enrolled into the water. Realizing that the leaders of the small herd were both doe’s and a younger buck eagerly followed. The buck had a nice six-point rack, with long tines and a wide spread. He kept his
moisture and made solid, and can be dissolved neither by the waves nor the power of
How many of you, when you go to a restaurant and the waiter/waitress asks you what you want to drink ask for water?
“This is a story about a world obsessed with stuff. It 's a story about a system in crisis. We are trashing the planet, we are trashing each other, and we 're not even having fun”. This quote by writer; Annie Leonard, in her video The Study of Water explains how companies such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi used manufactured demand to get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles a week (Leonard, 2010). In the late 1970s, giant soft drink companies such as PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Nestle, and DANONE used manufactured demand in order to get the general public to drink to their bottled water. However, it was did not do so well in the beginning at all. With the introduction of Perrier in the United States in the late 1960s, bottled was seen as a upper class fad that only middle class to upper class adults would drink instead of their regular tap water. People used to say, “Water is free, what will they sell us next air”? But due to manufactured demand these companies were able to successfully make individuals purchase bottle water with cheap tactics. For example, one of the first marketing tactic to scare people away from tap water was from Fiji Water, in which they placed many ads in Cleveland that announced that its water will taste better than the regular city tap (Leonard, 2010). This placement, like many others, were used to basically give tap water a bad image. That drinking water from the bottle is one of the more pure forms of consuming water then going to
“Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.” – Kevin R. Stone --
This paper discovers the water budget for Berkeley, California in comparison to Terre Haute, Indiana. The two cities precipitation differs throughout the twelve month calendar year where many of the heavy precipitation months are totally opposite. Berkeley California’s winters, where the majority of rain occurs and Terre Haute, Indiana where the rainfall is observed as consistently disseminated throughout the year evenly. This paper will also magnify geographic position, climate and elevation in contrast of the two cities that reflects the water budget outlined in Project 1: Water Balance defined in