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Does a swamp have brackish water?
yes, a pond is a fresh water ecosytem. Although the ecosystem is in the same biom as many other small ecosystem, the ecosystem contains many small communitys. The pond is a freshwater ecosystem because it contains small communitys that interect with each other and because its a fresh water source.
What body of water requires animals to adapt to both salt and fresh water?
Quick and Dirty: Brackish.
Why is it lethal to inject pure water into a humans circulatory system?
Because of a thing call osmosis. If you place a permeable (one which will allow the slow leackage of water but not solids) membrane between two containers and fill one with pure water and the other with salty water so that they were both up to the same level. Then with time the salty container would fill up more at the expense of the fresh water side. Nature likes equal concentrations of saltyness and as the salt can not move acriss the membrane, fresh water leaks form the fresh water side to try and make the salty side more dilute. Blood is slightly saline (salty) and in balance with the saltiness of the tissues and cells in the body. If you were to dilute the blood by injecting pure water, then the cells would start to to fill up with more water (because of osmosis) and they would burst, causing alot of damage to the body. That is why intravenous water is a slaine solution made to be the same osmotic salinity as blood.
Abiotic parts of ecosystem?
All non-living things in the ecosystem are the abiotic components. Like the soil, atmosphere, water bodies, etc.
Do amoebas live in fresh water or salt water?
Like most cells, amoebae are adversely affected by excessive osmotic pressure caused by extremely saline or dilute water. Amoebae will prevent the influx of salt in saline water, resulting in a net loss of water as the cell becomes isotonic with the environment, causing the cell to shrink. Placed into fresh water, amoebae will also attempt to match the concentration of the surrounding water, causing the cell to swell and sometimes burst if the water surrounding the amoeba is too dilute.
Which body of water in egypt has both fresh water and salty water?
The body of water in Egypt that has both fresh and salty water is where the River Nile flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The fresh water from the Nile mixes with the salty Mediterranean water, creating a barrier between the two.
Contrast the water in oceans with fresh water?
Ocean water Can't drink it and its salty. Fresh Water can drink it, because its fresh :D!
Which bony fish can live in both fresh and salty water?
salmon
What is an ecosystem that contains both salt water and fresh water?
Sorry for this short answer... Earth. A briny water ecosystem can contain both salt and fresh water, though it is all mixed together. These ecosystems are where a fresh water source, such as a river, meets a salt water source, such as an ocean. River deltas commonly have briny water.
The river usually flows down to?
The river usually flows downwards due to gravity, following the path of least resistance towards lower elevations or towards the ocean.
How is fresh water both a renewable and a limited resource?
Its renewable because the ecosystem collects and purifies the fresh water. Its limited because the earth is only made up of 3% of fresh water and most of the other half is locked up in ice at the Poles.
How are oceans and rivers alike?
Oceans are a lot deeper, bigger and contain a lot more life in it than rivers.
Does a swamp have brackish water?
yes, a pond is a fresh water ecosytem. Although the ecosystem is in the same biom as many other small ecosystem, the ecosystem contains many small communitys. The pond is a freshwater ecosystem because it contains small communitys that interect with each other and because its a fresh water source.
Why salt water and fresh don't mix?
Unfortunately salt water and fresh water do, in fact, mix. You can easily perform an experiment yourself: 1) Take two glasses and fill them with tap water, or filtered water, or holy water if you'd like. 2) Add salt to one. The salt can be table salt you buy at the store, with or without iodine, sea salt, rock salt or any other type of actual sodium chloride you can buy. 3) Taste the water in both glasses. One is salty, the other isn't. 4) Add equal parts of water from both glasses to the a third glass. 5) Taste the water. It's salty, but less salty than the glass of salt water you made. That's because the two waters mixed and made a glass of water has 'saltiness' somewhere in between the fresh water and the salt waters you made. Having said all that, well out at sea from the mouth of the Amazon, the surface water is still fresh, due to density stratification. The same effect is seen in the New Zealand Fiords, where wave action is slight.
Can drinking water be extracted from sea water or salty ground water?
both.
Is an ecosystem smaller than a biome?
A boime is bigger and a ecosystem is smallerFor example: The water biome is divided into fresh water and marine (salt water). Within these two categories there are several separate ecosystems in both. i.e. the Gulf of Mexico is a large ecosytem within the marine biome.
How might tenochtitlans location have been both a benefit And a hindrance to the Aztecs?
It helped them because it was hard for them to get attack the bad thing is that had water problems like when it rain the city floods and it mixed the fresh water with the salty water.
