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Both salt and fresh water flow into one.
The definition is:
A semi-enclosed coastal body of water, which has a free connection with the open sea.
So it would be salt water.
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A coastal inlet or bay where fresh water mixes with salt water?
estuary
What is the body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water called?
The body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water is called an estuary. This commonly an enclosed body of water.
What is estuary in organisms?
An estuary is an area, or body of water where the water from a river meets the water of a larger body of water such as a bay or ocean. Thus an estuary has mixed wildlife and is inbetween salt and fresh water.
What's a salt wedge?
Salt wedge is a type of estuary having fresh water on the surface and salted water at the bottom.
What do call salt water and fresh water meet?
Fresh water and salt water meet at a river's mouth, where fresh water becomes salty and is known as brine. This mixing often occurs in an estuary, where the river widens.
Is fresh water in an estuary?
an estuary is a mix of salt water and fresh water.
Where salt water and fresh water mix?
Estuary
What biome is this. where fresh water and salty ocean water meets?
the area located between them is an estuary. because and estuary is where fresh water and salt water mix.
A coastal inlet or bay where fresh water mixes with salt water?
estuary
What is the term used for water in an estuary?
An estuary is usually where the fresh water of a river meets the salty sea. The mixing of fresh and salt water forms brine.
What type of aquatic ecosystems are formed by mixture of salt and fresh water?
Brackish ecosystems are formed by the mixture of salt and fresh water.
What is the body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water called?
The body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water is called an estuary. This commonly an enclosed body of water.
Example of an estuary?
An estuary is an area where fresh water and salty ocean waters mix together. These areas may include bays, mouths of rivers, salt marshes, and lagoons. These brackish (salt mixed with fresh) water ecosystems shelter and feed marine life, birds, and other wildlife with nutrients from the ocean.
Does Long Island Sound contain salt water or fresh water?
The Long Island Sound contains both fresh and salt water because it is an estuary.
What is estuary in organisms?
An estuary is an area, or body of water where the water from a river meets the water of a larger body of water such as a bay or ocean. Thus an estuary has mixed wildlife and is inbetween salt and fresh water.
Is the Mississippi freshwater?
Yes, but the estuary where the salt water meets the fresh water is the Louisiana Swamps
The area at the end of a river where fresh water and salt water combine is called a what?
Horseisle Answer: Estuary
