As you can see, water has many special properties that make its role in nature unique. This qualities helps water to move through plant fibers. Even so, detergents are used to enhance water's ability to dissolve dirt. Phosphate, compounds that are added to detergents, can have a serious impact on lakes when they increase the growth rate of algae. Another way that lakes are affected by one of water's strange characteristics is how water freezes.
Water is the only substance that occurs naturally in all three states.
Complete the set of questions that corresponds with the suit of your card. The answers to these questions can be found in the above reading, your notes, and your Water Project. Your textbook may be an added source of information. Surface Tension, Explain polarity. Give two examples of places where water moves upward by capillary attraction in nature.