0
What would happen to your cells if you were to drink salt water from the Pacific Ocean?
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
Because ocean water has a higher salt content that your cells (hypertonic), they would shrivel slightly.
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What are the major water bodies in Samoa?
theire is a beutiful waterfall that youcan swim and drink the water is imported from the Bahamas ... also the water is the cleanest water in Samoa
Is the pacific ocean on the east coast of north America?
to be strong you have to have engery drink........................................ not now bye
What will happen to a kangaroo if the fluid levels in the cells drop?
It will drink some water.
What happen as salt dissolves in water?
The water will taste salty and not good to drink, ocean water is salty and if you drink too much of it you can die.
What would happen to your cells in your body if you drink salt water?
you become dehydrated because thwe concentration of salt is in salt water than in your cells, so water flows out of your cells to balance the concentrations.
What can happen if you drink while you are in high school?
You will get addicted to the alcohol, lose brain cells, and potentially RUIN YOUR WHOLE LIFE!!!!!!! Don't do it.
Ocean water is hypertonic to the internal environment of the body predict what would happen to an individual who consumes large quantities of ocean water?
If you drink ocean water when your dehydrated it makes you even more so. In a hypertonic solution water moves out of the cells because the the particles want to have equal concentration gradients. Since a hypertonic solution has a high concentration of solutes in it it makes sense for the water from a cell to move out so that the environment in the cell and environment outside both have the same concentration of solutes. Human cells shrivel in a hypertonic solution, this kills the cells and can therefore kills you if enough cells can't function. answer: the indivdual dies
Do hermit crabs have to drink ocean water?
They live in the ocean - it would be a little difficult to drink freshwater.
Do you drink ocean water?
Ocean water is very salty and it could kill you if you drink all lot of it.
What happen to your cells if you don't drink water?
Osmosis will not occur in your cells, so the organelles in the cell will stop functioning due to lack of adequate water. This will result in your ceels dieing, which will cause you to get sick.
Why shouldn't drink ocean water?
The water from an ocean is salt water, it will make you ill and can be fatal if you continue to drink it.
How much percent of the Atlantic ocean can you drink?
No body can drink Atlantic ocean water its especially full of salt.
