Humans live in this biome. In order to adapt, humans have affected the Chaparral. Chaparral biomes all over the world have been heavily affected by human activities, such as grazing, logging, building of dams, agriculture, and urbanization. This has caused plant and animal species to decline, some even nearly getting wiped out.
The key points of this model are summarized below. 1  The particles that form a liquid are relatively close together, but not as close together as the particles in the corresponding solid. 2  The particles in a liquid have more kinetic energy than the particles in the corresponding solid.
The formation of a spherical droplet of liquid water minimizes the surface area, which is the natural result of surface tension in liquids. A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a (nearly) constant volume independent of pressure. As such, it is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, gas, and plasma), and is the only state with a definite volume but no fixed shape.