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The Antarctic ice sheet contains 70% of the earth's fresh water. The Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent is salty, sea water.
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Is water found around Antarctica fresh water or salt?
Antarctica is surrounded by a salt-water sea: the Southern Ocean.
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.
Do both the Arctic and Antarctic contain salt water or fresh water?
The Arctic ocean, and the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica, are both salt water. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent of Antarctica holds about 70% of the earth's fresh water.
Contrast salt water and fresh water?
Fresh and salt water are very different for one key reason, fresh water doesn't contain salt and salt water obviously does. There are different flora and fauna in fresh and salt water for this reason.
What kind of water is used to make an iceberg salt water or fresh water?
Fresh Water cause 2 % of the 3 percent of fresh water on Earth is in the icecaps, glaciers, and icebergs.
Is water found around Antarctica fresh water or salt?
Antarctica is surrounded by a salt-water sea: the Southern Ocean.
Is Antarctica salt water yes or no?
No.Antarctica is a continent (there is fresh water ice on land and in the salt water sea around Antarctica).
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 types of ice are there in Antarctica?
salt water ice and fresh water ice
Is the water in Antarctica salt water?
The Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica is salt water, the saltiest ocean water on earth. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent is fresh water -- the store of 60%-70% of all the fresh water on earth
Do both the Arctic and Antarctic contain salt water or fresh water?
The Arctic ocean, and the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica, are both salt water. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent of Antarctica holds about 70% of the earth's fresh water.
What kind of water doesn't have a lot of salt in it?
fresh water.
What kind of water do you find in the ocean salt or fresh?
You find salt water in the oceans.
Why can't a saltwater fish live in freshwater?
If the salt water fish were to be put in fresh water then their high salt content inside their bodies (to prevent too much salt diffusing into their bodies) will have it diffusing out down the concentration gradient; killing them. If the fresh water fish were to be put in salt water then their low salt content inside their bodies (to prevent too much salt diffusing out of their bodies) will have it diffusing in again down the concentration gradient; killing them.
What kind of water do you put guppies in?
Tropical fresh water. (Not salt water).
What kind of marsh is the Florida everglades fresh water or salt water?
the water is fresh water trust me iv bean there
How is fresh water abtained in antarctica?
use fuel and burn the snow into a liquid texture
