What happens to water as it nears the freezing point?
When water approaches its freezing point, the H-O-H (H20) molecules start to slow down. In liquid form, they move close together, but they are more free from each other and can still move about and fill different shapes. Once the water freezes, the molecules appear to stop moving completely (but they are moving, just in extremely small ammounts). They lock together, so to say, and have now formed a solid.
