Properties of Water

Capillary Action is key for:
- Water moving from roots to leaves in plants
- Air moving from mouth to lungs
- Ice floating on water
- Water moving to lower areas

The tightness across the surface of water that enables paper clips to float is ____________.

Cohesive

Adhesive

Water striders can walk on water because of ____________.

Water can bounce on water because of surface tension.

Water droplets take a spherical shape because of ____________ (Options: adhesion, cohesion, capillary action, solubility)

Water moves through plant roots and in other substances with pores because of ___________. Options: surface tension, polarity, capillary action, gravity

As you added drops to the coins, each drop stuck to the other water because of ________________. Options: adhesion, cohesion, capillary action, specific heat

An attraction between molecules of different substances is called...