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Class Period _________
Properties of Water Lab
Station 1,5
1. What happened when you placed the hot, colored water on the surface of the room-temperature
water?
2. What happened when you placed the cold, colored water on the surface of the room-temperature
water?
3. Explain why what you saw in both situations occurred.
Station 3,7
4. What happened when you touched the edge of the foil in the dish of water and tried to sink it?
5. What happened when you touched the edge of the foil in the dish of salt water and tried to sink it?
6. What happened when you touched the edge of the foil in the dish of methyl alcohol and tried to sink
it?
7. Explain why what you saw in each dish occurred.
Station 4,8
8. How well did the salt dissolve in the tap water?
9. How well did the salt dissolve in the salt water?
10. How well did the salt dissolve in the alcohol?
11. Explain why the salt dissolved differently in each liquid.
Station 2,6
12. Describe/draw the shape of a fresh water drop on a glass plate.
13. What happened to the drop when the plate was inclined?
14. Describe/draw the shape of a salt water drop on a glass plate.
15. What happened to the drop when the plate was inclined?
16. Describe/draw the shape of an alcohol drop on a glass plate.
17. What happened to the drop when the plate was inclined?
18. Describe/draw the shape of a cooking oil drop on a glass plate.
19. What happened to the drop when the plate was inclined?
20. Describe/draw the shape of a detergent solution drop on a glass plate.
21. What happened to the drop when the plate was inclined?
22. Which liquid formed the roundest drops?
Station 7
23. How deep did the vial sink in water?
24. How deep did the vial sink in salt water?
25. How deep did the vial sink in alcohol?
26. Explain why the vials sank at different levels in the different liquids.
Station 11
27. Why does water in the solid state float on water in the liquid state?
28. What happens to the volume of water when it freezes?
Define the following terms:
Evaporation –
Condensation –
Sublimation –
Cohesion –
Adhesion –
Surface tension –