Cohesion
The tendency of water molecules to stick to each other
What is Cohesion?
The attraction of molecules of one kind for molecules of a different kind
Water's ability to resist changes in temperature
What is Moderation of Temperature?
A liquid that absorbs and dissolves other substances
A substance's mass per unit of volume
What is Density?
The tendency of a liquid’s surface to resist rupture when placed under tension or stress
What is Surface Tension?
The ability of water to climb upward against gravity
What is Capillary Action
The gas released when water is boiled and the hydrogen bonds are broken
What is Water Vapor or Steam?
The most common solute in water found in nature
What is Salt?
What is decreases?
When carefully dropped on a penny, for instance, water will form this shape
What is a dome?
A property of a surface that would increase water's ability to adhere
What is polarity?
The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by one degree Celsius
What is Specific Heat Capacity?
The property of dissolution that explains why water is able to dissolve polar compounds
What is 'Like dissolves like'?
What is less dense when solid?
Weak associations between the partially positive and partially negative ends of the molecules.
The curved surface formed by a liquid in a cylinder or tube
The main reason water is resistant to changes in temperature
What are Hydrogen Bonds resisting movement of molecules?
What is Water's Polarity?
When water freezes, the structure changes to this
What are rigid, open crystalline structures?
A small insect that is able to stand atop water due to surface tension
What is a Water strider?
Capillary action's application in plant life
What is transporting water up plant fibers?
Water's resistance to change creates this, allowing organisms to survive without experiencing wide temperature fluctuations.
What is a stable environment?
What is water's ability to hold and transport nutrients?
When water freezes atop lakes and creates a layer of ice, it does this to the aquatic life
What is protects and insulates them?