Properties of Water Word Search
This puzzle covers what makes water unusual: cohesion and adhesion, surface tension, polarity and the hydrogen bond, its role as a solvent, its high specific heat, and the classroom tests that prove it, from the penny to the paper clip.
A water molecule is bent, with its two hydrogen atoms set at an angle of about 104.5 degrees around the oxygen. Oxygen pulls the shared electrons toward itself, so that end of the molecule is slightly negative and the hydrogen end slightly positive. Those charges make neighboring molecules cling together, which is why water beads up on a penny, why a paper clip laid gently on it floats, and why it climbs the thin tubes of xylem in a plant.
Water also breaks a rule most substances follow. It is densest at about 39 degrees Fahrenheit, and as it freezes the molecules lock into an open lattice, so ice is less dense than liquid water and floats. Lakes freeze from the top down, and the ice lid keeps the water below from freezing solid. Its specific heat is so high that the calorie was defined by it: the heat needed to warm one gram of water by one degree Celsius.
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- Adhesion
- Angle
- Bead
- Bent
- Capillary
- Celery
- Climate
- Cohesion
- Cooling
- Density
- Dew
- Dissolve
- Droplet
- Electrons
- Expand
- Floats
- Hydrogen Bond
- Hydrophilic
- Lattice
- Liquid
- Meniscus
- Neutral
- Ocean
- Oil
- Oxygen
- Paper Clip
- Penny
- Pepper
- Polarity
- Pond
- Roots
- Soap
- Soluble
- Solvent
- Specific Heat
- Surface Tension
- Sweat
- Transpiration
- Water
- Xylem