Universal Solvent
States of Water
Water Structure
Specific Heat
Vocabulary
100
Water dissolves more liquids.
What does water do more efficiently than any other liquid?
100
Ice is less dense as a solid, than as a liquid
What is reason ice floats?
100
Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
What is water made up of?
100
The amount of heat per unit mass required to raise the temperature by one degree Celsius.
What is specific heat?
100
Attraction from water molecules to other water molecules
What is Cohesion?
200
Water takes valuable chemicals, minerals, and nutrients
What does water take as it moves?
200
Ice floats
What is the reason oceans and lakes do not freeze?
200
Positive
What is a charge of hydrogen in water?
200
Very little change
What is the change in temperature of water when the water absorbs and releases large amounts of heat energy?
200
Attraction of water to substances that are not water.
What is Adhesion?
300
Polar
What is waters magnetic property?
300
Hydrogen bonds breaking
What is the cause of water evaporating?
300
Negative
What is the charge of oxygen?
300
It warms the air.
What does warm water do to cold air?
300
The tightness across the surface of water that is caused by the polar molecules pulling on each other.
What is Surface Tension?
400
A substance that dissolves another substance, forming a solution.
What is a solvent?
400
Ice expands
What happens to ice as it freezes?
400
A highly electronegative atom of a polar molecule meets a hydrogen atom.
What is the process of forming a polar molecule?
400
It moderates changes in temperature better than a liquid with a lower specific heat
What is special about water that dominates composition of biological organisms?
400
The combines force of attraction among water molecules and with the molecules of surrounding materials.
What is Capillary Action?
500
A mixture that forms when one substance dissolves another.
What is a solution?
500
When water evaporates and it removes a little bit of heat with it.
What is the cooling effect?
500
Charged ends of water molecules attract molecules of other polar substances.
What causes water molecules to be attracted to each other?
500
More stable than inland temperatures.
What are coastal land areas temperatures like?
500
The process by which plants release water vapor through air leaves.
What is Transpiration?
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