Water Properties Foldable

Start with a square sheet of paper:

Fold the corners toward the middle:

Label the outside flaps as follows

Stores
Other things

Heat
Bonds to

Solvent
Universal

Bonds to
Itself
Stores Heat –
o Specific Heat – the amount of heat required to change the temperature of 1
g of a substance 1◦ C.
o Waters specific heat = 4.184
o Water has a high specific heat because the hydrogen bonds absorb more
heat to increase the temperature.
o This helps maintain homeostasis by regulating cell temperature in warm
blooded animals and by maintaining the environment around water
habitats.

Bonds to Itself –
o Cohesion – (vocab.)
o Surface tension – property of liquids that causes the surface to act as if it
were covered by a thin, weak elastic skin.
 Example: spider walks on water

Bonds to Other Things –

o Adhesion – (vocab.)
o Capillary action – spontaneous movement of liquids up or down narrow
tubes. ( due to the unbalanced molecular attraction between the liquid and the tube – if the liquid
molecules are more strongly attracted to the molecules in the material of the tube than to the other
liquid molecules, the liquid will rise in the tube. If they are less attracted to the material of the tube
than to the other liquid molecules then the liquid will fall in the tube.)
 Water rises from the root, through the stem up the plant.
o Meniscus – Due to the surface tension of the liquid and its
reaction to the surface of the container.

Universal Solvent –
o Like dissolves Like (polar dissolves polar and non-polar dissolves
o Molecules that have ends with partial negative and positive charges are
known as polar molecules. This polarity allows water to separate polar
solute molecules and explains why water can dissolve so many substances
o Many biochemical reactions take place only within aqueous solutions.
 The only way cells can get certain materials (like sugar) into them is if they are
dissolved in water.
 When a compound enters water, it is surrounded by water molecules. The
relatively small size of water molecules typically allows many water molecules to
surround one molecule of solute. The partially negative ends of the water are
attracted to positively charged components of the solute, and vice versa for the
positive ends.