Water and its properties!

Words to look out for the day:

Acid / Base
Solution / Cohesion
Adhesion / Surface tension
Solvent / Saturation
Solute / pH
Dipole

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  1. How well do we really know water?

Materials needed: ______

What did you do?

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  1. Universal what?

Materials needed: ______

What did you do?

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What did you observe?

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Water is a known as a universal ______. Solvent is the substance that does the ______. What is an example of a solvent? ______

Solute is the substance that does the ______. What is an example of a solute? ______

A ______solution is where the ______is not able to dissolve anymore ______.

  1. Bending it like the Airbender!

Materials needed: ______

What did you do?

______

What did you observe?

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Water has two ______atoms and one ______atom. ______has a positive charge whereas ______has a negative charge. The net dipole is in the direction of ______. This makes water a ______molecule. In example of KCl, K has a ______charge whereas Cl has a ______charge. This balances the charges so this makes KCl a ______molecule.

Would KCl dissolve the food coloring from the previous step? ______

Why not? ______

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Polar reacts with ______and non-polar reacts with ______.

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  1. Penny fun!

Materials needed: ______

Guess on the droplets: ______

Actual number of droplets: ______

What did you do?

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Water tries to limit its ______so it takes up the shape of a ______. ______causes the water droplets to stick to one another. ______bonds help keep the water molecules together.

  1. Let’s just stick together…

Materials needed: ______

What did you do?

______

What did you observe?

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Besides cohesive properties, water also has ______properties. This is why the colored solution stayed in the micro well plates.

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  1. Walking on water? Seriously?

What did you watch?

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The ______uses the ______property of water to float on water whereas the ______uses the ______property of water as seen in the video.

How else are these properties used in the nature? ______

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Other properties:

Density:

Water ______when it is cooled and ______when it is heated. This is not the case for most liquids. This makes the ______float on ______.

Why is this helpful? Well, think about it. If a lake freezes and if it froze from the bottom, the ice would never ______. Because of water’s cool properties, the ice on the top layer protects the organisms underneath.

Capillary action: What property of water do roots use to transport water against the force of gravity? ______. This is called ______.

pH: ______is the measure of the ______or ______of a solution. Water has a pH of ______on a scale from ______to ______. Acids range from ______to ______whereas bases range from ______to ______.

List an example for an acid: ______

List an example for a base: ______

What is the pH of our blood you ask? ______to ______. Clearly, it’s very sensitive. What’s the pH in our stomach? ______to ______. This is why tablets are made in such a way that they don’t get dissolved by the stomach acids.

Relation to water: ______substances are afraid of water. ______is such an example. ______substances love water and ______is such an example.