Properties of Water

What two elements make up water?

• Helium and oxygen
• Hydrogen and oxygen
• helium and carbon
• oxygen and carbon

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What word describes when water is attracted to other substances?

• cohesion
• adhesion
• capillary action
• surface tension

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

• adhesion
• capillary action
• surface tension
• polarity

Which statement explains why water molecules stick together?

• both sides are negative
• one side has a positive charge and the other side has a negative charge
• one side has a negative charge adn the other side has a neutral charge
• both sides are positive

When a molecule has an opposite electrical charge on each end, it is known as what?

• cohesion
• polar molecule
• hydrogen bond
• solution

When water molecules stick easily to other water molecules, this is called what?

• cohesion
• adhesion
• solution
• polar molecule

Is tea a mixture or a solution?

• Mixture

• Solution

Water is known as the Universal Solvent.

What does that mean?

• Water can dissolve most things

• Water can be dissolved by most things

What do you call the bond between a water molecule and up to 4 other water molecules?

HINT: These bonds are responsible for all of water's unique properties!

• Hydrogen Bonds

• Covalent Bonds

• Water Bonds

• Ionic Bonds

What is a solvent?

• The substance that does the dissolving in a solution.
• The substance that is being dissolved in a solution.
• The mixing of different substances.
• The process in which neutral molecules lose or gain electrons