Water Properties

Front

What is the term for water's ability to defy gravity and climb up a tube?

Back

Capillary Action

Front

What allows a water strider to skate along the top of a pond?

Back

Hydrogen bonds result in water cohesion (surface tension).

Front

The tightness across the surface of water that enables paper clips to float is ____________.

Back

Surface tension.

Front

Water is a ___________ molecule due to it having a positive AND negative end.

Back

Polar.

Front

Which of the following is an example of COHESION?

Back

Water sticking to water.

Front

What is the term for the attraction between water molecules?

Back

Cohesion.

Front

What is the term for the attraction between water molecules and other substances?

Back

Adhesion.

Front

What property of water allows it to have a high specific heat?

Back

Hydrogen bonding.

Front

What is the universal solvent?

Back

Water.

Front

What is the effect called when water rises in a narrow tube against gravity?

Back

Capillary action.