Daniella and her family live on a very large farm. When Salisha visits the farm they go exploring to collect smooth round pebbles found in the small stream running down the forested hillside. They notice that the water in the small ponds on the flat sandy fields dry up before similar ones on the clayey hillside.

Give ONE reason why the ponds the hillside dry up slower than those on the flat fields.

For cyclohexane compounds drawn in a chair conformation:   -axial bonds are vertical  -equatorial bonds are parallel to two bonds within the ring.  thus, as i assume the chair conformation is drawn:   -the x group is in an axial position, as are the five other vertical bonds.  -three axial bonds are on the top face of the ring  -the other three axial bonds are on the bottom face  the position of the second substituent on each ring carbon is equatorial.  gauche groups must be on an adjacent carbon such as carbon 6 and carbon 2, and also gauche groups are rotated by 60 degrees relative to each other.  drawing the newman projections for c1–c2 and c1–c6 aids in visualizing the groups that are gauche to the y group on c1.  click this link and watch some academic videos that may you more understand the topic