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Water Homework

Answer the following questions as indicated.

1. How many atoms are in a molecule of water?

2. Which elements make up water?

3. What is waters chemical formula?

4. Draw a water molecule.

5. Is water polar, non-polar, or ionic?

6. What are the 4 major unique properties of water? Why are they significant (provide

at least one reason).

7. What is the difference between cohesion and adhesion?

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8. How is it possible for rivers, lakes, oceans, and seas to maintain moderate

temperatures around 70F even if the ambient temperature is over 100F? Is this

related to humidity?

9. Why does sweating cool us down?

10. How do hydrogen bonds make it possible to go ice-skating?

11. What is the difference between a solute and a solvent?

12. Knowing that arachnophobia is a fear of spiders (arachnids) and a philomuse is a

lover of poetry and the arts, what do you think hydrophobic and hydrophilic mean?