September 9, 2016

Objective: Students will be able to analyzed the unique

properties of water
Warm Up
Agenda:
Warm-up Name the 4 macromolecules
Take out review packet and their building blocks
Quiz
Unit project
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 September 9, 2016
Objective: Students will be able to analyzed the unique
properties of water
Unit project
Letter – let to client
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 Why
Does
a
belly
flop
hurt?
The Unique
Properties of Water 3
 The Chemical Makeup of
H20
• Water is made from covalent bonds
• Each hydrogen binds to one oxygen
• The electrons stay closer to the oxygen,
making it have a charge.
Water is a polar
molecule.
Water has a
positive
pole and a
negative
pole. 5
 Hydrogen
Bonding: The
(+) pole of one
water molecule is
attracted to the (-)
side of another
water molecule.
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Surface tension is the top
layer of water molecules
cohering to each other to
act like a film 7
 Surface Tension
• Water molecules want to cling
to each other.
• At the surface, there are fewer
water molecules to cling to
since there is air above.
• This results in a stronger bond
between those molecules that
actually do come in contact
with one another, and a layer
of strongly bonded water (see
diagram).
• This surface layer creates a
barrier between the
atmosphere and the water.
 So a “net” of water
molecules forms. When
water sticks to itself it is
called cohesion.

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Capillary action: water can
defy gravity when flowing
through small tubes.

How does blood “feed”

every cell, even at the
extreme tips of your
body?
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 When water sticks to
something else it is called
adhesion. 11
Check for Understanding
• With your partner, review and
summarize what cohesion and
adhesion are
• Come up with a clever way to not
get the two confused
• TIME: 2 minutes
 Specific heat capacity: It
takes a great amount of
energy to heat up water.
But once it
is heated,
water holds
heat. 13
 So, your
body is a
like a car’s
radiator.
When blood flows heat is
evenly distributed from
from the inside out. 14
Density: Water floats
when frozen (it is less
dense than liquid).
What would happen to life
in a winter pond if water
sank when frozen? 15
Universal Solvent: Water
dissolves most polar
substances.
Why is your
blood mostly
made of
water? 16
 Let’s Review.
List the properties of water.

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1. Polar
2. Cohesion
3. Adhesion
4. Specific heat capacity
5. Floats when frozen – less dense.
6. Surface tension
7. Capillary action
8. Universal solvent
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 Most biochemical reactions
involve solutes dissolved in water.
• There are two important
quantitative proprieties of aqueous
solutions.
– 1. Concentration

– 2. pH
 Acids and Bases
• An acid is a substance that
increases the hydrogen ion
concentration in a solution.
• Any substance that reduces the
hydrogen ion concentration in a
solution is a base.
– Some bases reduce H+ directly by
accepting hydrogen ions.

• Strong acids and bases completely

dissociate in water.
• Weak acids and bases dissociate
only partially and reversibly.
 pH Scale
• Measures the degree of acidity (0 – 14)
• Most biologic fluids are in the pH range
from 6 – 8
• Each pH unit represents a tenfold
difference (scale is logarithmic)
– A small change in pH actually indicates a
substantial change in H+ and OH-
concentrations.
 Warm Up:
1. When the cells of most organisms freeze, they burst.
Which property of water causes this to occur?
a. Water is a universal solvent.
b. Water changes temperature rapidly.
c. Water is less dense as a solid than as a liquid.
d. Water is a nonpolar molecule.
2. Water dissolves many substances. This occurs because
water has
a. surface tension
b. polarity
c. specific heat
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d. cohesion
 September 7, 2016
Objective: Students will be able to analyzed the unique
properties of water
Turn-in Bin
Agenda:
Finish lab – observation and water
Warm-up
properties
Notes – water
Lab
Homework:
Review Packet

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