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The average ocean salinity is less than 4 percent?
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What are three areas in the ocean where salinity may be less than average?
Where a major river enters. Where a large glacier enters. Where an ice shelf is melting. Upon reflection, about one half of the ocean will have a salinity less than the average.
Give three areas in the ocean where salinity may be less than average?
Around the mouth of rivers and glaciers, or where an ice shelf is melting.
What is hypersaline?
Hypersaline refers to a body of water that has about 40 parts per mil salinity which is much higher than the salinity for average ocean water which is about 35 parts per mil salinity.
What is salinity used in a sentence?
The salinity of the ocean was much higher than I thought it would be.
What is the salinity of the Pacific ocean?
Salinity is the saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of water. The average ocean salinity is 35 ppt. This number varies between about 32 and 37 ppt. Rainfall, evaporation, river runoff, and ice formation cause the variations. For example, the Black Sea is so diluted by river runoff, its average salinity is only 16 ppt. Freshwater salinity is usually less than 0.5 ppt. Water between 0.5 ppt and 17 ppt is called brackish. Estuaries, where fresh river water meets salty ocean water, are examples of brackish waters. Saline waters from inland seas can have a composition that differs from that of the ocean.
How much saltier is ocean water than your blood?
On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% The salinity of human blood is 0.9%. So sea water is roughly 3.5 times as salty as blood.
How does salinity affect the density of the ocean water?
Dissolving salts in water increases the density slightly. Ocean waters have an average density about 2.5% greater than fresh water. The Dead Sea has a much higher density, somewhere roughly near 20% greater than fresh water due to its 30% salinity level.
Is salinity greater in surface water than deep ocean water?
yes
On the average Atlantic Ocean water is slightly less dense than the average water of any other ocean What is a possible cause?
The Mediterranean Sea flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
True or false places where rivers pour fresh water into the ocean have low salinity?
Salinity is a measure of how salty water is. Ocean water is more salty in some places than in others. The answer is yes, places where rivers pour fresh water into the ocean have low salinity because fresh water is normally cold and in warm areas, ocean water evaporates quicker. When this happens, salt is left behind and the ocean water has a higher salinity.
What is the salinity of a river?
The salinity of the Tigris River is between 0.130-0.191. It varies along the river. Salinity rates have been rising which is a cause for concern.
