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The Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica is a salt-water ocean. The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica is frozen fresh water.
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What kind of water does Antarctica have salt or fresh?
The Antarctic ice sheet contains 70% of the earth's fresh water. The Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent is salty, sea water.
Why is the water in the sea salty?
Because the fresh water turns into salty water.
Why does an egg float in water and not it salty water?
A fresh egg don't float in pure water; in a salty water the floating depends on the concentration of the salt in solution. The salty water is more dense.
A place where fresh water from rivers mixes with salty ocean water is a?
An estuary is the place when river water mixes with seawater (salty ocean water).
Is water found around Antarctica fresh water or salt?
Antarctica is surrounded by a salt-water sea: the Southern Ocean.
What kind of water does Antarctica have salt or fresh?
The Antarctic ice sheet contains 70% of the earth's fresh water. The Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent is salty, sea water.
Is the Antarctic salty?
The Southern Ocean is, but Antarctica has about 90% of the world's ice (and thereby about 70% of the world's fresh water).
How is fresh water abtained in antarctica?
use fuel and burn the snow into a liquid texture
Is fresh water unpolluted?
No. Fresh water is simply water that is not noticeably salty.
Why is the water in the sea salty?
Because the fresh water turns into salty water.
Why does a perspex block sink in fresh water but floats in salty water?
salty water is more dense than fresh
Can salty water fish live in fresh water and can fresh water fishes live in salty water?
No they cannot, its why they're so called.
What does brackish water mean?
"Brackish" means tasting salty or undrinkable.
Which body of water in egypt has both fresh water and salty water?
The body of water in Egypt that has both fresh and salty water is where the River Nile flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The fresh water from the Nile mixes with the salty Mediterranean water, creating a barrier between the two.
Is most water fresh water?
not all water on earth is fresh its 60% fresh and 3% salty
Are dams fresh water filled or salty water filled?
Fresh water filled.
Another word for tears?
They salty tasting water that comes out your eyes
