Use scientific vocabulary to describe how water on Earth affects the ability of our planet to absorb and regulate heat, to make it a habitable place. A complete answer will address transmission, absorption, and/or reflection of energy for water in each state of matter (liquid, solid, and gas), including specific examples.

Some gamma ray bursts are hypothesized to come from mergers of neutron stars or black holes. if this hypothesis is correct, what else should we in principle be able to detect from such mergers? a. gravitiational waves b. x-ray bursts c. significant disruption of gas thousands of light-years away in the surrounding galaxy d. an "afterglow" of bright visible light, lasting for weeks