Water Properties Stations:
Name: ________________________
Date: _________________________
Period: ________________________
You will go around to different stations and answer questions on your paper and
complete mini labs. When you are done with the station, get the teacher to check you off
and move to the next station.
*Capillary Action:
Oil: _________cm
Water: ________ cm
Tell how capillary action explains what was observed. ________________________
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Explain what happened to the dot of ink. _______________________________
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Extra: A piece of celery is put into a cup of colored water. The next day the leaves are
colored. Explain what has happened. __________________________________
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*Surface Tension:
Observation of Basil
Before the Jet Dry (control)
After the Jet Dry
Explain how the control was different: _________________________________
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Elaborate on how the fact that the water was polar affects the surface tension.
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Extra: Explain how this relates to the penny lab. __________________________
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*Density:
Tell how the Galileo thermometer deals with density. _______________________
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Explain how solid water floats on water is similar to the Galileo thermometer. (Hint: Temp)
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Extra: Give the room temperature of the classroom using the Galileo thermometer. Prove
your answer. _________________________________________________
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*Phase Change:
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Tell the temperature in which water freezes and when it melts. Explain why they are the
same. ______________________________________________________
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Explain why salt is added to icy roads in the winter. _________________________
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Extra: Tell why sublimation does not happen regularly in Frederick. _________________
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*Universal Solvent:
Powder
Three Powders in Water Test
After added to water
After stirred with rod
Sugar
Baking
Soda
Piece of
Tablet
Explain how stirring the solutions affected the rate of diffusion. ________________
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Tell why oil will not mix with water. ___________________________________
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Extra: Tell how waves affect the diffusion of minerals into the ocean. _____________
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*pH:
Liquid
pH
pH of Liquids
Chalk after 2 minutes
Clear
Blue
Yellow
Infer from the pH, why the chalk was affected the way that it was when in the liquids.
Clear- _____________________________________________________
Blue- ______________________________________________________
Yellow- _____________________________________________________
Extra: Explain why our stomach has the pH that it has using the lab. (Think about what its
jobs is for the body.) ___________________________________ ______________
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*Clarity:
Type of Crystal
Pure Crystal
Observation with Flashlight
Lead Crystal Glass
Explain why the two crystals reacted different to the light. ___________________
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Extra: Explain why there are fewer rainbows in the sky these days than in the past. ___
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*Color:
Explain which liquid is most likely water. Prove your answer. ___________________
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Extra: Explain why shallow end of the pool appears light blue and the deep end of the pool
appears darker blue. ____________________________________________
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*Specific Heat:
Type of Liquid
Sanitizer
Observation of what happened
Water
Extra: Explain why the concrete around the pool gets hotter than the pool water. .
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