Water Properties project
By: Conner Cunningham and Vaughn Stetter
Day 1Cohesion and Adhesion
 Whenever I’m out alone on the water like today, I always
look at fishing as a simple man’s job. And being the simple
man that I am I’ll start with one of the most simple
properties; cohesion. Cohesion is what I see everyday. This
property says that water has a tendency to stick together.
All bodies of water only exists because all molecules of
water stick together. Without water’s property of cohesion,
I wouldn’t be able to do what I love. And besides this, there
is the property of adhesion. This property says that water
sticks well to other objects. As a fisherman, I see this all the
time as well. Water sticks to my fishing pole, me, and my
boat, which is a hazard for all fishermen, and is the reason
why I where a lifejacket.
Day 2Polarity and Hydrogen Bond
 Looking deeper into the water waiting for a
nibble, I thought more about a singular water
molecule. As I thought about the make-up of
water, H2O, while hydrogen atoms(H) are
positive, and oxygen atoms(O) are negative.
These two atoms attract, and form a +/- bond
like a magnet. This is a hydrogen bond, which
happens between different water molecules.
Covalent bonds happen when the water
molecules are created. This is shown by the
black line in the diagram. Along with this is
polarity. This is the property of water that makes
one end of the molecule positive and one end
negative.
Day 3Waters density and Surface Tension
 Today, I was fishing with a bobber and I thought more
about what makes a bobber float on the surface. There
are two properties of water that could be the reason
that objects float. If an object is less dense than the
liquid it is sitting on, it will float. Waters density is 1
g\ml. With this information, we know that the density
of my bobber is less than 1 g\ml. Another property that
allows objects to sit on top of water is surface tension.
Surface tension is a property that is a result of polarity.
When water molecules sticks together, it makes water
act as if they were covered in a thin solid. This allows
some animals to skate on top of the water.
Day 4Specific Heat and the Water Cycle
 Today was a very cold day for the season, and the fish
were not very active. Like humans, the fish like to
conserve their body heat by being in motion less. The
property that affects the heat of water is called specific
heat. Specific heat is the amount per unit mass needed
to raise the temperature one degree Celsius. Specific
heat also affects the water cycle. When water
evaporates, its specific heat must reach a certain
temperature in order to turn into a gas. When in the
water cycle, water is evaporated, condensed into a
cloud and then precipitated back to the ground.
Day 5Universal Solvent and Capillary Action
 Today after cleaning up the catch of the day, I went back to the boat
and started to rinse it of. At first I used buckets of the salt water and
observed one carefully. “How does the salt stay in the water?” I thought
to myself. I learned then that water is a universal solvent. Water can
dissolve more substances than any other liquid. Now knowing that I was
rinsing off my boat with salt, I took the hose off of the dock. As I pulled
the hose up to the boat a kink formed. While straight up in the air, the
water in the hose was still halfway up in the narrow tube. This is because
of capillary action. Capillary action is the tendency of a liquid to climb
up narrow tube thanks to cohesion, making the water stick together and
adhesion, making the water stick to the inside of the hose.
Fun Facts
 1. 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up entirely of water.
 2. Nearly every food or drink item provides some water to the
body.
 3. 70-75 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water.
 4. The average person in the United States uses about 80-100
gallons of water each day.
 5. The United States uses about 346,000 gallons of water each
day.
Bibliography
 Hyper Physics. “Specific Heat.” Hyperphysics.phy. N.p., n.d.
Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://hyperphysics.phyastr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/spht.html>.
 “20 Interesting and Useful Water Facts .”
www.allaboutwater.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2011.
<http://www.allaboutwater.org/water-facts.html>.
 “Water Cycle- Animated Diagram.”
Earthguide.diagrams.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2011.
<http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/watercy
cle/>.
I THINK I’VE GOT
SOMETHING!!!
THANKS FOR
WATCHING
BOTH PICTURES CREATED ORIGINALLY BY VAUGHN
STETTER