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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

What property of water enables aquatic life to live in a frozen pond?

Ice floats
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

What property of water helps organisms maintain a stable internal temperature? (think of the balloon popping demo)

High specific heat

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

What property of water demonstrates how carbon dioxide and oxygen are transported by blood throughout the body?

Universal Solvent

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

This property of water demonstrates the attraction of a water molecule to something else

What is adhesion?

400

What type of bond connects one water molecule to another water molecule?

Hydrogen bond

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 of water demonstrates how water dissolves other polar substances

Universal Solvent

500

What type of bond connects a hydrogen atom to an oxygen atom in a molecule of water?

Covalent