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The amount of heat required to heat one gram of a given substance by a certain amount (usually one degree).

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Specific Heat is simply shown in a body of water influenced by outside temperatures. For example, during the summer up north there has been multiple days of 80+ degree temperatures and all of the sudden there is a 45 degree day. The temperature of the water is not going to change significantly because it has a high specific heat.

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Since water takes longer to come to it’s freezing or boiling point due to specific heat, it takes longer to freeze or evaporate. This means that if water didn’t have the specific heat property, then water would go through the water cycle much quicker which could lead to all different types of problems.

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Specific Heat has an incredibly strong relationship to chemistry. For example, water is considered the ‘universal solute’ so when put into chemical reactions it is important for water to keep a somewhat constant temperature so accurate results can be obtained. In order for water to have a high specific heat, it needs special IMF's and bonds. One critical bond each molecule has with another is a hydrogen bond. That bond has to be broken before the temperature starts to rise. To break a bond, it requires more energy which means it has a higher specific heat at 4.184 Joules. That amount can heat one gram of water one degree Celsius.

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This video shows what happens to water at the molecular level when heat is added. It also explains why water has a unique ability to hold in heat, making it have a higher specific heat.

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Uploaded by Courtney Harrington on 2013-08-06.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CgL6P6o81I
www.dictionary.com/browse/specific-heat    https://water.usgs.gov/edu/heat-capacity.html

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The oceans are the main support for life on earth. Certain animals can only withstand a small range of temperature in the water. If water didn’t have a high specific heat, then the amount of life in the ocean would decrease dramatically due to constant fluctuations in water temperature. If that amount of ocean life couldn’t be supported, then we would have no chance of survival as a race. That is how the small property of specific heat in water globally impacts life on earth.