Water Properties

A insect like a water strider can skate along the top of a pond because:

• covalent bonds result in water cohesion

• hydrogen bonds result in water cohesion (surface tension)

• low surface tension of water

What word describes when water is attracted to other substances?

• cohesion
• adhesion
• capillary action
• surface tension

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molecule in which opposite ends have opposite electric charges

• cohesion
• polar molecule
• hydrogen bond
• solution

Why does ice float?

• As water freezes, it expands and its density decreases.
• As water freezes, it takes up more hydrogen from the atmosphere, causing it to have a greater buoyancy.
• As water freezes, air becomes trapped between the hydrogen bonds of water molecules.
• As water freezes, it takes up more oxygen from the atmosphere, causing it to have a greater buoyancy.

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Water is a universal solvent because it...

• It can be found anywhere
• It freezes when it gets cold
• floats when frozen
• Dissolves most substances

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Water striders can walk across the surface of calm water. Their feet push the surface of the water down slightly, but they do not break the surface. Why?

• The insects are light enough so they do not break the hydrogen bonds holding the water molecules together
  
• The insects actually use their wings to hover slightly above the water’s surface and they only skim it with their feet.
• The insect’s feet are non-polar, so they are repelled by the polar water molecules and are pushed away from the water’s surface.
• The insects are small enough to see the individual water molecules, so they are able to step carefully from one molecule to the next
  

A general definition of cohesion is the attraction of:

• particles of the same substance
• particles of a different substance
• particles of both the same and different substances
• particles of neither the same or different substances

Capillary Action

• The property of water that allows ice to float on the surface of liquid water

• The property of water that allows it to dissolve polar substances

• When water molecules stick to other surfaces

• The property of water that allows water to move up a thin tube (or the stem of a plant) by itself

As you add drops of water to the surface of a coin, each drop sticks to the other water droplet because of ________________, and sticks to the penny because of ______________.

• adhesion, cohesion

• cohesion, adhesion

• capillary action, specific heat

• specific heat, capillary action

Which end of the water molecule has a slightly positive charge?

• the oxygen end
• the hydrogen end
• both ends are slightly positive
• neither end is positive