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Why does freezing and evaporation increase the salinity of ocean water?
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Salt is dissolved in a smaller volume of water.
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What do evaporation and freezing increase in the ocean?
Salinity will be increased in the ocean when water evaporates and when it freezes.Ocean water.
What cause surface ocean water to have a higher salt content?
The salinity of ocean water depends on its location, rate of evaporation, amount of precipitation and amount of freshwater added to the ocean.
Why Ocean Salinity increasing?
When evaporation occurs at a rate faster than precipitation, the net result is that salt is left behind and the salinity in the oceans will increase. Of course, new salt is brought into the ocean by rivers and deposition of salts on the sea floor takes salt out of the ocean. As a whole, the salinity of the ocean (total salt everywhere) has not changed for millions of years since these input and removal processes are in balance. The increased "saltiness" created by the imbalance between precipitation and evaporation in certain areas of the ocean (some very large) is balance by areas that are fresher so the whole ocean is not getting saltier.
Is it true that the salinity of an ocean will increase when a freshwater source flows into it?
False
What is the factor that can increase the salinity in seawater?
The salinity is basically how much salt is in the ocean. It increases in sub tropical places because there's not a lot of rain and more evaporation. The water evaporates and the salt stays behind thus making the water saltier. The salinity decreases in places more near the equator because it is always raining and that fresh rain dilutes the salt. It is also less salty near the coast because of the freshwater runoff "Seawater".
What do evaporation and freezing increase in the ocean?
Salinity will be increased in the ocean when water evaporates and when it freezes.Ocean water.
The salinity of the ocean?
You could increase the salinity of the ocean by adding salt or removing water (ie: by evaporation).
How does evaporation affects salinity?
Evaporation leaves salt behind. So as ocean water decreases, the percentage of salt increases, increasing salinity. As evaporation increases, rainfall also increases, thus it decreasing the salinity of ocean water.
List three factors that affect salinity in the ocean and three factors that affect ocean temperatures. Explain how each factor affects salinity or temperatures?
Three factors are evaporation and freezing of sea water.
What affects the salinity of ocean water?
evaporation
What two factors affect ocean salinity?
Freezing point (more salt the lower the freezing point). Density (more salt, the heavier the water).
An increase in ocean salinity can increase what creating a current?
An increase in ocean salinity can increase density creating a convection current.
What lowers the salinity near the surface of the ocean?
evaporation
Is salinity high on open ocean?
In open ocean evaporation affects the salinity of the oceans, in closed oceans the lack of sunrays cause greater salinity levels.
What are two ways the salinity of ocean water can increase?
Decreasing the temperature, evaporating water, or adding more salt.
What cause surface ocean water to have a higher salt content?
The salinity of ocean water depends on its location, rate of evaporation, amount of precipitation and amount of freshwater added to the ocean.
Salinity in the ocean is highest in regions where is high and is low?
Salinity in the ocean is highest in regions where evaporation is high and precipitation is low. Density in seawater is determined by both temperature and salinity.
