Oceanography

Lakes become salty if the source of water flowing into the lake contains salt and the salty water cannot flow out of the lake. Salt lakes are endorheic, water leaves the lake by evaporation and leaves the salt and minerals in the remaining water.

The Sun i think

NO!!! It's the gravitational pull of the MOON!!! As it pull the Earth from opposite sides, it causes the tides. This "pull" on the Earth elongates the Earth by about 8 ft in opposite directions. I really hope you didn't use the SUN answer as your final answer. :)

The sea is salty because over billions of years, rain and rivers have washed mineral salts from rocks and soil into the ocean. These dissolved salts, such as sodium and chloride, accumulate in the ocean, making it salty.

Oceanographers study the physical, chemical, biological, and geological aspects of the ocean and marine environments. They investigate ocean currents, marine life, oceanic ecosystems, oceanic chemistry, and the interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere.

The term environmentalist is such a broad one that almost any tool might be used! They use magnifying glasses and microscopes, rulers and pressure gauges, mass spectrometers and chromatographs of various kinds - the list is endless. Of course they also use calculators and computers, as a large part of the work involves maths and handling data.

The four ocean's of the earth are : * The Indian Ocean, * The Atlantic Ocean, * The Pacific Ocean, * The Arctic Ocean

They wear away rock at the base of rocky shorelines.

Oceanographers work in various settings such as government agencies, universities, research institutions, environmental consulting firms, and industries related to marine resources. They may also work on research vessels and in coastal areas conducting fieldwork and collecting data.

The two natural elements found in water are hydrogen and oxygen.

Ocean water is diluted by the rivers. Probably the best example of this is where the Amazon river meets the ocean. Approximately 160km away from the mouth of the river Amazon, the ocean water is still fresh enough to drink. It probably doesn't taste very nice though. IN ADDITION: Volume. The amount of fresh water that flows into the ocean can be measured in parts per million. It doesn't have the volume needed to change the salinity of the ocean as a whole. It would be equivalent to adding one drop of food coloring to a swimming pool and trying to notice the difference later.

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Such dilution is local, but the ocean's salinity is by no means homogenous anyway. The water circulation is cyclic, with vapour from the sea being distilled water. Once it falls as rain or snow, it collects minerals from the rocks the rivers are eroding, helping maintain the sea's overall cocktail of dissolved salts. So the rivers have no real effect on the sea's saltiness overall, but if anything maintain it.

Fresh water contains a variety of microbes such as bacteria, algae, and protozoa. Salt water also harbors bacteria and algae, but tends to have a higher diversity of microbes including archaea and certain types of fungi due to its higher salinity level.

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is a cool ocean current that flows completely around Earth. It is the world's strongest current and plays a crucial role in regulating global climate by connecting the world's oceans.

Ocean water turns over due to a process called thermohaline circulation, which is driven by differences in temperature and salinity. Cold, dense water sinks in polar regions, while warmer, less dense water rises. This circulation helps distribute heat and nutrients throughout the ocean.

Oceans and seas appear blue due to the way water absorbs sunlight. Water molecules absorb colors in the red part of the spectrum, leaving mostly blue light to be reflected back to our eyes. This gives the ocean its blue color.

There are different opinions concerning this topic because their effects are somewhat different. But majority agree that tepid water is more effective than cold water.

You can read their effects in detail here:

http://scienceray.com/biology/ecology/drinking-cold-water-or-warm-water-which-one-is-more-effective/

personally i do not no how coral reef feeds, that's what i was trying to fond out but now i am writing this. if you want to no how coral reef feeds i suggest you go on to wikipedia and type in coral reef

Sponges are only a small part of the ocean's biodiversity, so the amount of water in the ocean would remain virtually unchanged if they didn't exist. Sponges primarily filter and recycle nutrients in the water, but their absence wouldn't significantly impact the overall volume of water in the ocean.

14 degress difference? Even you could work this out. Go check it out. Is two AC units involved here? Check the large pipe at the outside condenser units. Both should be very cold and dripping water where exposed to the open air. Not so? Problem found already.

The weight of sea water really depends on a number of variables, including the temperature, the amount of salt (salinity) and whatever other foreign items may be present, and the depth, thus the pressure. But to get to the basic answer, seawater, at the surface, on average weighs 1027 kg/m3, or just over 64.1 lbs per cubic foot.

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The question is another way of asking for density of salt water. Salt water has greater density than that of fresh water, due to the dissolved salt. Fresh water has a density of 1000 kg/cubic meter vs. an average density of 1027 kg/cubic meter for ocean salt water.

The prefix for Oceanography is "ocean-".

Only 3% of the water on Earth is potable because the majority of water on Earth is saline water found in oceans. Additionally, some of the fresh water is locked in glaciers and ice caps, making it inaccessible for human consumption. Furthermore, water pollution and contamination degrade the quality of potable water sources.

Approximately 29% of the Earth's surface is occupied by the continents and islands. The remaining 71% is covered by oceans.