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Properties of water

This is a quiz for biology

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Why does Cohesion Happen? Because water is polar, with opposite charges at opposite ends.
Why does High Surface Tension happen? Water molecules attract and sticking together (Cohesion)
What are two real world examples of how organisms use surface tension to their advantage? Organisms use surface tension to their advantage because it allows water striders to stand on water. And it allows for certain insects to float on top of water.
Why does Adhesion happen? water makes hydrogen bonds with other surfaces such as glass, soil, plant tissue, and cotton.
Why does capillary action occur? Because of the adhesion of water to other substances.
What's High Heat of Vapor? it's when water takes a lot of heat in order to turn water into gas vapors.
Why does High heat of vaporization happen? Because water attracts other molecules.
What is density? Also do most substances do this? It's the amount of matter in a given volume. And most substances don't do this because they become less dense.
How does Universal Solvent help living things? Because they can dissolve in the water in our bodies.
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