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Why is the water in the mediterranean sea saltier than water in the oceans?
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What is saltier the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean?
Before and after I am done urinating in Mediterranean beaches, the water is much saltier than the Atlantic due to the fact that the Mediterranean loses more water to evaporation than it receives from rivers.
Why is the Arctic Ocean saltier than Oceans further south?
It think that salt stays in the water because it gets frozen.
Is pacific ocean saltier than Caribbean?
The Red Sea and the Mediterranean are much more salty than the Caribbean. There is a difference of about 5 grams per 1000 more
Why are the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake ten times saltier than the oceans?
It is saltier because it has no outlet to the sea.
How much saltier is the dead sea than the oceans?
The Dead Sea is 33.7 % Salinity - The oceans average 3.5% salinity. So the Dead Sea is Roughly 10 times a salty as the Oceans. ----------------- I found another source (wikipedia.org)that states that the Dead Sea is 8.6 times as salty as the sea.
Are potatoes saltier than water?
It all depends where you get them from
What does brackish mean?
Saltier water than regular
This inland saltwater sea is the largest ocean in the western US and is saltier than the oceans?
Great Salt Lake
Why is polar water saltier than other ocean water?
It is the other way around. The polar seas are the least saline of the worlds oceans, due to low evaporation and heavy freshwater inflow from rivers and streams.
How much saltier is ocean water than your blood?
On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% The salinity of human blood is 0.9%. So sea water is roughly 3.5 times as salty as blood.
Are some oceans saltier than others?
yes because more salt is dissolved at the bottom of the sea
Why do variations in salinity occur?
Incomplete mixing of fresher and saltier waters. Salt water is denser than fresh, so fresh water can actually float on saltier water for quite a while.
