Adhesion and capillary action activity and notes

Tuesday September 10^th 

*Water can and WANTS to form bonds with how many other water molecules? 4 (EVERY water molecule wants to bind with 4 others so it will eventually form a crystal like structure like this.

*Waters attraction to other water molecules is known as Cohesion 

*The term for how water “pulls in” at the surface to form a “film” is known as Surface Tension (Which we saw yesterday)

A water molecule is a polar molecule used in all living organisms. 

 

Which process is the direct result of the polarity of the water?

A.  The storage of chemical energy

B.  The destruction of damaged cell parts

C.  The transferring of genetic information

D.  The dissolving of a variety of substances

 

 

We then looked at Adhesion and capillary action today with the following notes and activities.

 Here is a poor quality video of how we viewed capillary action (pay no attention to the sound ;)