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Water is the medium of life.

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Essential idea: What is the most important molecule in the world?

Challenge: Can you justify why?

Support: think what we need to live

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2.2 Vocabulary

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The cohesive nature of water gives it surface tension.

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Water is so cool

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Brain Break – what do these 5 words mean?

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

  • C
  • C
  • C
  • S
  • S
  • S
  • P
  • L
  • A
  • I
  • T

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Brain Break – what do these 5 words mean?

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

  • Covalent
  • Cohesion
  • Coolant
  • Surface Tension
  • Solvent
  • Specific Heat
  • Polar
  • Latent Heat
  • Adhesion
  • Ice
  • Transparent

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Understandings, Application and Skills

2.2.Syllabus Reference

Statement

Guidance

2.2.U1

Water molecules are polar and hydrogen bonds form between them.

2.2.U2

Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

Students should know at least one example of a benefit to living organisms of each property of water. Transparency of water and maximum density at 4°C do not need to be included.

2.2.U3

Substances can be hydrophilic or hydrophobic.

2.2.A1

Comparison of the thermal properties of water with those of methane.

Comparison of the thermal properties of water and methane assists in the understanding of the significance of hydrogen bonding in water.

2.2.A2

Use of water as a coolant in sweat.

2.2.A3

Modes of transport of glucose, amino acids, cholesterol, fats, oxygen and sodium chloride in blood in relation to their solubility in water.

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Water is important because:

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  • Most organisms have high a water content (from 75 - 95%).
  • Many organisms live in water.
  • Most chemical reactions of life take place in water.

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  • A water molecule consists of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom, hence…H2O
  • Electrons are shared through covalent bonding between the 3 atoms

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What is water made up of?

2.2.U1 Water molecules are polar and hydrogen bonds form between them.

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  • The electrons are shared unequally, creating an unequal distribution of charge.
  • The oxygen atom has more protons so it attracts the shared electrons more of the time

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Why is water dipolar?

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

The hydrogen atoms have a slightly positive charge

The oxygen atom has a

slightly negative charge

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2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

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2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

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2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

The bonds are made and broken quickly as the molecules move, however the large numbers of bonds contribute to the stability of water

Partly positive hydrogen atoms of one water molecule are attracted to the partially negative oxygen of another water molecule

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What is cohesion?

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

Hydrogen bonding between water molecules produces high cohesion

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2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

Cohesion of water molecules along a surface produces surface tension

Fishing spiders and pond skaters rely on surface tension to move across the surface of ponds

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Brain Break – what do these 5 words mean?

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

  • Polar
  • Covalent
  • Hydrogen Bonds
  • Cohesion
  • Surface Tension

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Challenge:

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

Can you make a paperclip float?

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What is adhesion?

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

Water molecules sticking to non water, polar or charged surfaces is called adhesion

Adhesion helps water climb up the thin tubes of plants to the leaves

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Adhesion and cohesion move water in plant stems

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

Together they cause capillary action

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2.2.U3 Substances can be hydrophilic or hydrophobic..

Polar Molecules Like Water

Lic

HydrophiLic

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This term is used to describe substances that are chemically attracted to water.

2.2.U3 Substances can be hydrophilic or hydrophobic..

  • All substances that dissolve in water are hydrophilic, including polar molecules such as glucose, and particles with positive or negative charges such as sodium and chloride ions.

( water loving )

hydrophilic

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This term is used to describe substances that are insoluble in water

2.2.U3 Substances can be hydrophilic or hydrophobic..

  • Molecules are hydrophobic if they do not have negative or positive charges ( nonpolar)
  • All lipids are hydrophobic, including fats and oils
  • Hydrophobic molecules dissolve in other solvents such as acetone

hydrophobic

( water fearing )

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What is a solvent?

2.2.A3 Modes of transport of glucose, amino acids, cholesterol, fats, oxygen and sodium chloride in blood in relation to their solubility in water.

Water is an excellent solvent

A wide range of substances dissolve in water

Water is attracted to and can surround ions or polar molecules (such as sugars and amino acids, dissolving them

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Water as a solvent

2.2.A3 Modes of transport of glucose, amino acids, cholesterol, fats, oxygen and sodium chloride in blood in relation to their solubility in water.

Blood and cytoplasm are mostly water as water is an excellent transport medium

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Transport of molecules in the blood

2.2.A3 Modes of transport of glucose, amino acids, cholesterol, fats, oxygen and sodium chloride in blood in relation to their solubility in water.

Fats

They are carried in blood inside lipoprotein complexes (in the plasma

  • Large, non-polar molecules
  • insoluble in water
  • )

Cholesterol

They are carried in blood in lipoprotein complexes (in the plasma)

  • molecules are hydrophobic, apart
  • from a small hydrophilic region at one end
  • This is not enough to make cholesterol dissolve in water

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2.2.A3 Modes of transport of glucose, amino acids, cholesterol, fats, oxygen and sodium chloride in blood in relation to their solubility in water.

Sodium Chloride

  • ionic compound
  • freely soluble in water
  • dissolving to form sodium ions (Na+) and chloride ions (Cl-)
  • carried in the blood plasma

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What is specific heat capacity?

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

  • Water moderates the effect of temperature change
  • Compared to other molecules, it takes a lot of energy to change the temperature of water
  • So it heats up or cools down very slowly
  • This provides for a stable internal environment and habitat

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Brain Break – what do these 5 words mean?

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

  • Polar
  • Covalent
  • Hydrogen Bonds
  • Cohesion
  • Surface Tension
  • Adhesion
  • Cohesion-adhesion theory
  • Ice
  • Universal Solvent

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What is latent heat of vaporization?

2.2.A2 Use of water as a coolant in sweat.

Water can evaporate below its boiling point (100C). This can be seen when we sweat.

The (thermal) energy is transferred to the gaseous state and acts as a coolant.

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Ice is unusual because it is less dense than liquid water (most substances become more dense when they solidify from a liquid).

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Why is ice special?

2.2.U2 Hydrogen bonding and dipolarity explain the cohesive, adhesive, thermal and solvent properties of water.

This is because the spacing between hydrogen and oxygen becomes fixed as it cools.

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Cool facts

Extra Information

Ponds and lakes freeze from the top down and never freeze completely to the bottom

Many plants and fish therefore are not frozen and can live underneath the ice

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Water is transparent

Extra Information

Water is transparent simply because it does not absorb light in the visible spectrum, and all frequencies of coloured light are transmitted through.

Because water is transparent, light penetrates tissue and aquatic environments, important for photosynthesis.

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Water Recap

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2.2.A1 Comparison of the thermal properties of water with those of methane.

Methane

Boiling point -164oC

Water

Boiling point 100oC

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2.2.A1 Comparison of the thermal properties of water with those of methane.

Methane

Water

Formula

CH4

H2O

Molecular mass

16

18

Bonding

Single covalent

Polarity

nonpolar

polar

Density (g cm-3)

0.46

1

Specific Heat Capacity

(J g-1 oc-1)

2.2

4.2

Latent heat of vapourisation (J g-1)

760

2257

Melting point (oC)

-182

0

Boiling point (oC)

-160

100

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2.2.A1 Comparison of the thermal properties of water with those of methane.

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Saturn's moon Titan has lakes containing methane, it rains methane and it's water is as hard as rock. So what is the difference between water and methane?

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Kahoot

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Quiz

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