FOLDABLE: PROPERTIES OF WATER
Read Chapter 2, Section 2
Create a simple book by folding 2 sheets of paper in half and
stapling them in place..
FRONT COVER
Note: Nothing is written on back of front cover.
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Write the book title - PROPERTIES OF WATER
Sketch and color a water molecule
Normal heading in upper right corner
PAGE ONE (Front side)
TOP HALF
 Write the Page title, UNIVERSAL SOLVENT,
centered at the top of the page.
 Draw and color (Oxygen-RED and Hydrogen- BLUE)
water molecules held to each other by hydrogen bonds
BOTTOM HALF
 Write the following questions and answer:
1. What is a solvent?
2. Why is water called a universal solvent?
3. What is a solute?
4. Which type of molecules, polar or nonpolar,
dissolves in water?
5. Are materials that dissolve in water hydrophobic or
hydrophilic?
PAGE ONE (Back side)
TOP HALF
 Write the Page title, POLARITY, centered at the top of the page.
 Draw and color (Oxygen-RED and
Hydrogen- BLUE) water molecules held
together by hydrogen bonds
BOTTOM HALF
 Write the following questions and answer:
1. What is meant by polarity?
2. Which end of the water molecule attracts
most of the electrons and acts negative?
3. Which end acts positive?
4. How do water molecules act like “little
magnets”?
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PAGE TWO (Front side)
TOP HALF
 Write the Page title, COHESION, centered at the top of the page.
 Sketch and color the water droplet
BOTTOM HALF
 Write the following questions and answer:
1. What is cohesion?
2. Cohesion produces ____________ tension as the water
molecules hold tightly together.
3. How do living things like insects use surface tension?
PAGE TWO (Backside)
TOP HALF
 Write the Page title, ADHESION, centered at the top of the page.
 Sketch and color the picture of capillary action.
meniscus
Adhesion pulls
the liquid up the
sides of a tube.
BOTTOM HALF
 Write the following questions and answer:
1. Define adhesion.
2. Adhesion produces an effect called _____action when you
place a straw in a liquid.
3. Explain how adhesion and cohesion help plants move materials.
LAST PAGE (Inside of back cover)
TOP HALF
 Write the Page title, INSULATION, centered at the top of the page.
 Sketch and color the ice crystal.
BOTTOM HALF
 Write the following questions and answer:
1. When is water the densest?
2. Explain why ice floats?
3. How is a lake or river that freezes over
helpful to the organisms in the water?
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