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Name: ________________________________ Teacher_____________________Date: _____________________

Learning Goals:
Students will be able to:
Understand how water supports life.

1. Water droplets form by water molecules being attracted to each other. What term best explains this behavior?
a. adhesion c. solubility
b. cohesion d. magnetism

2. Which property of water allows water to stick to the sides of the straw?
a. adhesion c. heat capacity
b. cohesion d. solubility
d. solubility
3. Which property of water
allows bugs to walk on
water?
a. adhesion
b. heat capacity
c. surface tension
4. What property of water allows sweat to cool the body & coastal cities to have more moderate temperatures
than inland cities?
a. High heat capacity c. Surface tension and capillary action
b. Neutral pH of 7 d. Universal solvent

5. Water is a polar molecule because

a. It shares electrons equally between oxygen and hydrogen
b. One side of the molecule has a slight positive charge and the other side has a slight negative charge
c. It freezes at zero degrees Celsius
d. It forms hydrogen bonds with other water molecules

6. Water molecules form what type of bonds with each other, which is depicted in the
diagram to the right.
a. ionic d. metallic
b. covalent
c. hydrogen

7. Surface tension and capillary action occur in water because it

a. is very dense c. has ionic bonds
b. is nonpolar d. has hydrogen bonds