Your biology teacher sets up a lab on the properties of water. You and your partners move to a station which has a thin, glass straw inserted into a beaker halfway filled with water. One of your partner’s asks, “Why is the water in the straw higher than the beaker’s waterline and why is the water on the edges of both the beaker and straw “curved”?

Which of the following best answers your partner’s question?
⦁ The attraction between water and the glass tube (adhesion), as well as on interactions between water and itself (cohesion), force the water in the beaker down and thus pushes the water upwards in the straw giving water in the glass straw the “U” shape at its edges due to Osmosis.
⦁ The attraction between water molecules and the glass walls of the tube (adhesion), as well as on interactions between water molecules (cohesion), force the water upwards giving water in the glass straw the “U” shape at its edges due to capillary action.
⦁ The attraction between water and the glass tube (adhesion) is equivalent to a motorized suction apparatus that sucks up the water with gravity instead of against it.
⦁ The attraction between water molecules and the glass walls of the tube (cohesion), as well as on interactions between water molecules (adhesion), force the water upwards giving water in the glass straw the “U” shape at its edges due to transpiration.