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Because rivers have clean regular water and oceans have salty water if yhu were to swallow ocean wter yhu would get sick but if yhu swallow river water yhu might be okay
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What are the the areas were fresh water rivers meet the oceans?
Lake
What is the difference between oceans and rivers?
One main difference between oceans and rivers is that oceans are made up of salt water while rivers are made up of fresh water. A river follows a course while oceans surround the continents and are very large.
Discuss the work of river in detail?
There are some rivers that are known to be handmade. Rivers are fresh water and come from creeks and oceans.
Can salty oceans dry out?
No ocean can dry out as the rivers keep on bringing fresh water to it.
Are oceans fresh water or salt water?
All oceans are salt water, the only bodies of fresh water are lakes, rivers, streams, etc.
Why do more organisms live in oceans than in freshwater lakes and rivers?
organisms in fresh water had to adapt. they first lived in the oceans.
Why is water is decreasing?
Fresh water is decreasing because factories put their waste into oceans/rivers that are closest near by and then fresh water spoils.
Is the most water found on earth in is rivers?
Only 2.5% of Earth's water is considered fresh water (i.e. not in oceans). Most water is in our oceans.
What two main types of water are there?
there is salt water which makes up the worlds oceans and there is fresh water that make up certain streams and rivers
Which is the major fresh water source on the Earth?
It's actually the salty oceans, because the sun evaporates fresh water from the oceans; it forms into clouds; the clouds blow over the land and drop the fresh water as rain. It collects into rivers and lakes and dams and then into our houses. Fresh!
What is salt water and fresh water?
Salt water is water that has salt in it and it is found in oceans. Fresh water does not have salt and is found in rivers and lakes.
Do they have any rivers and oceans in England?
England has many rivers but no oceans.
