Properties of Water Worksheet
An 11th-grade science worksheet exploring the unique chemical and physical properties of water, including polarity, hydrogen bonding, cohesion, adhesion, and specific heat capacity.
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Read each question carefully and provide your best answer based on your knowledge of the properties of water. Show all your work for calculations.
1. Which property of water allows insects to walk on its surface?
High specific heat capacity
Surface tension
Adhesion
Low density as a solid
2. What type of bond is responsible for the unique properties of water, such as cohesion and adhesion?
Ionic bond
Covalent bond
Hydrogen bond
Metallic bond
3. Water is a polar molecule because of the uneven distribution of between oxygen and hydrogen.
4. The property of water that allows it to dissolve many substances is known as its role as the .
5. When water freezes, its density , causing ice to float.
6. Water has a low specific heat capacity, meaning it heats up and cools down quickly.
True
False
7. Cohesion is the attraction between water molecules and other substances.
True
False
8. Explain why water's high specific heat capacity is important for regulating Earth's climate and for living organisms.
9. Describe the difference between cohesion and adhesion, providing an example of each in the context of water.
10. Observe the diagram of a water molecule below. Label the oxygen atom, hydrogen atoms, and indicate the partial positive and partial negative charges that make it a polar molecule.
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