Properties of Water (by Jordan Dickens)

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Across
  1. 3. The process where, since hydrogen bonds are attracted to each other, water molecules stick together.
  2. 4. Water is a ______ solvent.
  3. 6. Hydrogen bonds can easily break and ______.
  4. 7. Individual hydrogen ______ are weak compared to covalent ______.
  5. 9. The type of pressure at a given depth that is the result of the weight of the liquid acting on an area at that depth plus air pressure.
  6. 10. Water is a ______ molecule.
  7. 11. The positively charged hydrogen end of one molecule attracts the ______ charged oxygen end of another water molecule.
  8. 14. The process where water sticks to other materials because of its polar nature.
  9. 15. As salinity ______, water resists freezing (this is why salt is put on a road during ice/snow storms).
  10. 16. Water forms ______ bonds.
  11. 17. As water cools enough to change from a liquid to ice, the hydrogen bonds spread the molecules into a crystal structure that takes up more space than liquid water, so it ______.
Down
  1. 1. Because of water's ______ specific heat, it can exist in 3 states (solid, liquid, and gas).
  2. 2. Water's hydrogen atoms bond to the oxygen atoms with a ______ bond. Because of this bond, water is a very stable molecule.
  3. 3. An action of water that explains why water is able to travel up a plant's xylem (against forces of gravity).
  4. 5. The upward force that fluid exerts on an object less dense than itself.
  5. 8. ______ tension is a skin-like surface formed due to the polar nature of water; water's resistance to objects attempting to penetrate its surface.
  6. 12. The tendency for a fluid (liquid or gas) to resist flow (the colder water gets the more resistant to flow it becomes).
  7. 13. ______ includes the total quantity of all dissolved inorganic solids in seawater (ions).