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There are three types of water. Freshwater, Saltwater, and brackish water. When Fresh water meets salt water is makes brackish water.
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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 the water salty tasting or fresh in Antarctica?
The Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica is a salt-water ocean. The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica is frozen fresh water.
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 the water of the ocean is salty?
When water goes to the ocean, most of the time its by a river. When rivers travel over land it picks up particles like salt. When the river meets the ocean at the rivers delta the slowing of the speed of the river causes the bigger sized particles to get deposited at the bottom of the ocean. The smaller particles(salt) remain in the water making the water salty.
Why is the water in the sea salty?
Because the fresh water turns into salty water.
How much fresh water is in the ocean?
The Pacific Ocean is salty, there is no fresh water in it.
Are rivers and streams fresh or salty?
river is fresh water because it has no salt in it. ocean is salt water because of its salt content. hope this helps
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.
Is the Indiana ocean salty or fresh?
Salty. It's connected to all oceans, which are all saltwater, therefore, it is salty.
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.
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).
Why is the water of the river fresh and the ocean is salty?
Because the silt in the sea has salt in it
Is water that evaporates from the ocean salty or fresh?
It's fresh water. The salt remains in the oceans as the water evaporates.
What happens when ice falls into the ocean?
it becomes more salty
What happens when the top of the iceberg melts in a salty ocean?
... it melts... and becomes part of the ocean.
Contrast the water in oceans with fresh water?
Ocean water Can't drink it and its salty. Fresh Water can drink it, because its fresh :D!
What happens to potatoes in fresh water and salt water?
In fresh water it will swell in salty one it will shrink
