Properties
More Properties
Characteristics of Life
Water Cycle
100
This property of water allows a pin to float on the surface of water.
What is cohesion at the surface (surface tension)?
100
This is the number of hydrogen atoms in a water molecule..
What is two?
100

All livings things are made up of...

What is cells?

100
After swimming, you leave your towel out in the sun. An hour later, the towel is dry. What part of the water cycle best describes this process?
What is evaporation?
200
This property of water demonstrates the attraction of one water molecule to another.
What is cohesion?
200
This is the number of oxygen atoms in a water molecule.
What is 1?
200

One way to get energy is through food. What are organisms called that get energy from the sun?

What are producers or autotrophs?

200
Snow, rain, sleet, hail. These are all examples of what part of the water cycle?
What is precipitation?
300
This property of water allows water to "climb" up substances.
What is capillary action?
300
This is the chemical formula for water.
What is H20?
300

Darwin's Finches are an example of this characteristic. 

What is adapt and evolve? 

300
Clouds and fog are examples of what part of the water cycle?
What is condensation?
400
Water molecules tend to "stick" together because of positively and negatively charged "ends" of the molecule. So, we say it is what kind of molecule?
What is a polar molecule?
400

The amount of energy it takes to raise 1g of a material one degree is known as...

What is high heat capacity?

400

This characteristic is the balance between internal and external environment.

What is homeostasis?

400

This is the process where water evaporates from plant leaves into the atmosphere.

What is transpiration?

500
This property describes tightness across the surface of water, caused by the polar molecules pulling on one another.
What is surface tension?
500

This property can be seen when it adapts a crystalline structure due to hydrogen bonds forming more frequently.

What is density?

500

This is when a plant turns toward the sunlight.

What is tropism? (Or response to stimuli)

500
What part of the water cycle is not visible?
What is water vapor or evaporation?