Properties of Water
What is the attraction of water molecules to other water molecules called?
Cohesion
What must be added to solid water to make liquid water?
What is heat?
Where is the most freshwater trapped?
In glaciers and ice
What is the attraction of water molecules to other substances?
What is Adhesion
The cycle which water circulates between oceans, atmosphere, living things, and land.
What is the water cycle?
A molecule with one side of an atom that is positively charged and the other side is negatively charged
What is a polar molecule?
Both adhesion and cohesion play a part in... Ex: Water moving up a paper towel
What is capillary action?
The liquid that a solute is dissolved in
What is the solvent?
The process of evaporating of water from plant leaves
What is transpiration?
Water on Earth is found in what states of matter?
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
What is the amount of heat needed to raise/lower 1 gram of a substance 1 C?
What is specific heat?
Why does water dominate the composition of many organisms?
Because of its high specific heat, it helps them regulate temp.
What is the freezing temperature of water?
What is 32 F or 0 C?
Most of the water on Earth is in...
What is oceans?
What substance has a specific heat of 540 cal/g?
What is water?
What is sublimation?
When water goes from a solid (ice) to a gas (water vapor) directly or vice versa?
When does water expand and form a crystal-like formation in its molecules?
When it is frozen.
In what state, do water particles move the most?
Gas, water vapor
Water covers about what percent of Earth?
70%