Why Is Liquid Water Believed to Be Essential to the Development

question 44

Multiple Choice

Why is liquid water believed to be essential to the development of life on a planet or other body?

• A) Liquid water provides an electricity-conducting medium in which lightning currents can create complex organic molecules.
• B) Liquid water allows many other chemical elements to interact and form complex molecules.
• C) Without water, there would be no shoreline onto which primitive fish could crawl to begin life on land.
• D) Liquid water combines chemically with other compounds to form the building blocks of life.

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Definitions:

Reinforcements

In psychology, the process of encouraging or establishing a pattern of behavior by offering rewards or consequences.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any need for prior learning.

Stimulus

An external or internal change that influences the activity of a living organism or one of its parts.