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Fresh water and marine or seawater are differentiated primarily by the amount of salt they contain (fresh water has almost no salt, sea water has about 3.5% salt by weight) and where you find them. To identify marine or sea water there is only one criteria, it is found in the oceans or salt seas. This differentiation is essential as the Black Sea is a freshwater sea. The fact that it is salty is shared with salt lakes and salty ground water. Likewise fresh water has little or no salt and is found in some but not all lakes and rivers and in underground water. Precipitation is generally fresh water as is meltwater from glaciers and the ice caps.Potability (can you drink it) is never a characteristic of sea water due to the salt, but fresh water is not always potable. It may contain metals, bacteria, odours, chemicals and similar materials.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoFresh water is rain, and is drinkable. Marine water is salty and is not drinkable.
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What is the difference between fresh water and potable water?
the difference between fresh water and potable water is fresh water can come form the ground, and/or, ice burgs.
Why can't marine fishes survive in fresh water?
Because marine fish live in salt water because there found in the ocean.
Why marine fish die when placed in fresh water?
because there is a difference in salinity which means less salt there is alot less in fresh water
What is the difference between marine subwoofers?
marine can be used in water or alot of moisture
What happens when marine protozoan is transferred to a fresh water medium?
marine protozoans transferred to fresh water will
How can you tell the difference between salt water and fresh water?
taste
Why marine fish lay egg in fresh water?
marine fish lay eggs in fresh water river
How can you tell the difference between a girl fresh water turtle and a boy fresh water turtle?
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What is the difference between saltwater and rainwater?
Rain water is fresh water and does not have salt. Saltwater is not fresh and does have salt.
What is the difference between marine and freshwater ecosystem is the presence of?
Salt in the water. Salt water.
What are the differences between salt water and fresh water?
the difference between salt water and fresh water is that salt water is from the ocean and fresh water is water that hasn't gotten to the ocean and so the water is clean, And you can only drink fresh water not salt water
What is the difference between still water and salt water?
it has salt in it and flat water is fresh
