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WorksheetsScience Vocabulary Quiz 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 41mins
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
Water travels up from the roots of a tree to the top because of
adhesion and cohesion
surface tension
specific heat capacity
density of water compared to ice
When water and other liquids stick together to form drops or thin films called ________________.
adhesion
capillary action
cohesion
surface tension
What do you call any substance that dissolves another substance?
Solvent
Height
Atoms
Oxygen
What property of water allows water to flow against gravity?
Polarity
Cohesion
Capillary Action
Adhesion
Why is water called the universal solvent?
It is polar.
It exist in the universe.
It dissolves many materials.
It has oxygen and hydrogen.
When water molecules stick to other materials it is called _____________.
adhesion
cohesion
capillary action
surface tension
The ability of water to move upward, against gravity, through small openings.
specific heat index
properties of water
capillary action
surface tension
A paperclip floating on water is an example of what property of water?
capillary action
surface tension
universal solvent
specific heat index
Water traveling up a plant is what property of water?
surface tension
cohesion
specific heat index
capillary action
Water drops being attracted to each other is an example of ____________.
capillary action
adhesion
specific heat index
cohesion
Water sticks to other substances like your hair, or a leaf because of which property?
adhesion
cohesion
polarity
specific heat
