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Is the water salty tasting or fresh in Antarctica?
The Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica is a salt-water ocean. The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica is frozen fresh water.
A place where fresh water from rivers mixes with salty ocean water is a?
estuary. It is a partially enclosed coastal body of water where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with salty seawater. Estuaries are rich and productive ecosystems that support diverse marine life.
What kind of water does Antarctica have salt or fresh?
Antarctica's water is mostly fresh, with large ice sheets that hold about 70% of the world's fresh water. However, there are also areas of salty water in the form of sea ice and surrounding the continent.
Why the water of the ocean is salty?
When water goes to the ocean, most of the time its by a river. When rivers travel over land it picks up particles like salt. When the river meets the ocean at the rivers delta the slowing of the speed of the river causes the bigger sized particles to get deposited at the bottom of the ocean. The smaller particles(salt) remain in the water making the water salty.
What kind of water has the lowest freezing point 1. Salty ocean water 2. Fresh lake water 3. Running river water?
Salty ocean water has the lowest freezing point among the three options due to the presence of dissolved salts like sodium chloride. The salt lowers the freezing point of water, making it freeze at a lower temperature compared to fresh water.
How much fresh water is in the ocean?
The Pacific Ocean is salty, there is no fresh water in it.
How much of the water that evaporates from a salty ocean is fresh water?
Only about 10 of the water that evaporates from a salty ocean is fresh water.
Are rivers and streams fresh or salty?
river is fresh water because it has no salt in it. ocean is salt water because of its salt content. hope this helps
What biome is this. where fresh water and salty ocean water meets?
the area located between them is an estuary. because and estuary is where fresh water and salt water mix.
Is the Indiana ocean salty or fresh?
Salty. It's connected to all oceans, which are all saltwater, therefore, it is salty.
What was one word that drescrides water that is not fresh and partly salty?
The word that describes water that is not fresh and partly salty is "brackish." Brackish water typically occurs in estuaries where freshwater from rivers meets and mixes with saltwater from the ocean, resulting in a unique habitat that supports various ecosystems.
True or false places where rivers pour fresh water into the ocean have low salinity?
Salinity is a measure of how salty water is. Ocean water is more salty in some places than in others. The answer is yes, places where rivers pour fresh water into the ocean have low salinity because fresh water is normally cold and in warm areas, ocean water evaporates quicker. When this happens, salt is left behind and the ocean water has a higher salinity.
Why is the water of the river fresh and the ocean is salty?
Because the silt in the sea has salt in it
Is water that evaporates from the ocean salty or fresh?
It's fresh water. The salt remains in the oceans as the water evaporates.
What happens when ice falls into the ocean?
it becomes more salty
What happens when the top of the iceberg melts in a salty ocean?
... it melts... and becomes part of the ocean.
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!
