Water’s Properties
What is the property that allows water molecules to stick to each other?
What is cohesion
What pH value represents a neutral solution?
What is 7?
What is a substance that dissolves in water called?
What is hydrophilic?
Why does ice float on water?
What is because ice is less dense than liquid water?)
What type of bond holds water molecules together?
What is hydrogen bonding?)
This property allows water to travel up plant stems against gravity.
(What is adhesion?)
What happens to the hydrogen ion (H+) concentration as pH decreases?
What is it increases?
Water can dissolve polar molecules due to its _________.
What is polarity?
Water has a high specific heat due to what kind of bonds?
What are hydrogen bonds?
What is the attraction between different substances, like water and plant walls, called?
What is adhesion?)
What is the reason water has a high surface tension?
What are hydrogen bonds?)
A solution has an H+ concentration of 10⁻⁴. What is its pH?
What is 4?
What happens when an ionic compound dissolves in water?
What is the formation of hydration shells?)
What property allows sweating to cool the body?
What is evaporative cooling?
How does cohesion help plants?
What is allowing water to be pulled upward through xylem?
Water’s ability to moderate temperature is due to its high _________.
What is specific heat?
What is the role of buffers in biological systems?
What is maintaining pH homeostasis?)
Why don’t oil molecules mix with water?
What is because they are nonpolar/hydrophobic?)
At what temperature does water reach its maximum density?
What is 4°C
What property allows small insects to walk on water?
What is surface tension?
What are the four emergent properties of water?
What are cohesion, ability to moderate temperature, expansion upon freezing, and versatility as a solvent?)
What is the effect of ocean acidification on marine life
What is a decrease in carbonate ions, affecting shell-building organisms?
What is the term for a solution where water is the solvent?
What is an aqueous solution?
What effect does climate change have on frozen environments?
What is melting glaciers and ice caps, affecting ecosystems?
Why does water resist rapid temperature changes?
What is its high specific heat?)