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An estuary is the place when river water mixes with seawater (salty ocean water).

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What is a place where rivers flow into oceans and have very salty water but not as salty as the ocean?

The place where a river flows into an ocean and fresh water mixes with salt water is known as a delta. The water that is less salty than seawater is known as brackish water.


Where fresh water runs into the ocean nursery for ocean babies?

Estuaries are where fresh water from rivers and streams mixes with saltwater from the ocean, creating a unique and nutrient-rich ecosystem. These areas serve as nurseries for many marine species, providing essential habitat and food sources for young ocean creatures to thrive and grow.


What is the place where salt and fresh water meat called?

The place where saltwater and freshwater meet is called an estuary. Estuaries are typically found at the mouths of rivers, where freshwater from rivers mixes with saltwater from the ocean. This unique environment supports diverse ecosystems and provides critical habitats for various species of fish and wildlife.


Is the Euphrates river fresh water?

All rivers are fresh. When they get near the ocean, the fresh river water mixes with the ocean water in the river "delta" as the tides go in and out.


What causes an estuary?

Well, an estuary is a place where freshwater from streams and rivers flows into the ocean and mixes with the seawater. So the water in an estuary definitely moves, it's effected by tides, but protected from the full strength of ocean wavers, winds, and storms by the barrier islands (an expanded beach), mud, sand and reefs that surround them.


What fish returns from the ocean to the fresh waters where it was born?

Salmon are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean and then return to the fresh water to spawn. Salmon have the reputation of returning to the same place they were born in order to spawn.


Use estuary in a sentence?

An estuary is a place where fresh water meets ocean water.


What is a pronoun for all rivers?

The pronouns that take the place of the noun phrase 'all rivers' are 'they' as a subject, and 'them' as an object in a sentence.Examples:All rivers in our state empty into the ocean. They may join at some point before they get there, but whatever chemicals enter them eventually ends up in the ocean.


What ocean do Piranha fish live?

no, piranhas cant be found in the ocea. piranhas are fresh water fish and can be found in ponds in Guyana and Venezuela. The ocean is salt water and piranhas cant survive there. So no piranhas cant be found in the ocean, so it is safe to swim there without worrying about piranha attacks.


What is the Arthur kill?

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What is a fish market?

It is a place, usually on or near a harbour where fresh ocean fish are sold cheaply (compared to in stores)


What is it called when sea water mixes with freshwater?

its called an Estuary... An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.[1] Estuaries are often associated with high rates of biological productivity.