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Salinity is the saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of water.
The average ocean salinity is 35 ppt. This number varies between about 32 and 37 ppt. Rainfall, evaporation, river runoff, and ice formation cause the variations. For example, the Black Sea is so diluted by river runoff, its average salinity is only 16 ppt.
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What are three ways in which the ocean's zones differ from one another?
Pelagic Zone - This Is Divided Into Three Different Zones. Three Living Creatures Are Clams, Crabs And Bottom Feeders.Photic Zone - Many Different Types Of Plants.Aphotic Zone - Gulper Eel, Vampire Squid And The Giant Squid.
What kinds of animals live in the Neretic Zone?
From Wikipedia: The neritic zone, also called the sublittoral zone[1], is the part of the ocean extending from the low tide mark to the edge of the continental shelf, with a relatively shallow depth extending to about 200 meters. The neritic zone has generally well-oxygenated water, low water pressure, and relatively stable temperature and salinity levels. These, combined with presence of light and the resulting photosynthetic life, such as phytoplankton and floating sargassum[2], make the neritic zone the location of the majority of sea life. Zooplankton, free-floating creatures ranging from microscopic diatoms to small fish and shrimp, live in this zone, and together with phytoplankton form the base of the food pyramid that supports most of the world's great fishing areas. At the edge of the neritic zone the continental shelves end, rapidly descending to the deeper oceanic crust and the pelagic zone.
List six distinct ecological zones that can be found in the ocean?
The six distinct ecological zones in the ocean are the epipelagic zone (sunlight zone), mesopelagic zone (twilight zone), bathypelagic zone (midnight zone), abyssopelagic zone (abyssal zone), hadalpelagic zone (trench zone), and intertidal zone (shoreline area). Each zone has unique characteristics and supports different types of marine life.
Can duckweed live in salt water?
No, duckweed cannot live in salt water. Duckweed prefers to grow in freshwater environments with low salinity levels. High salinity can be detrimental to duckweed's growth and survival.
What is the order of ocean zones?
The order of ocean zones, from the surface to the deep ocean, are the epipelagic zone, mesopelagic zone, bathypelagic zone, abyssopelagic zone, and hadalpelagic zone. Each zone has unique characteristics based on depth, light availability, and the organisms that thrive there.
What zones is the open-ocean zone split into?
The openocean is split into the surface zone (where light can shine through) and the deep zone (where light can't shine through. I hop this answers your question!:)
What is the salinity of the midnight zone?
The twilight zone does not have a fixed salinity. ocean waters of varying salinity move through the twilight zone as they circulate.
What is the salinity in the midnight zone?
the salinity in the midnight zone is a kind of high amount
How much salinity is there in the sunlight zone?
The amount of salinity that there is in the sunlight zone is about 3.5 percent. About 90 percent of sea life also resides in this zone.
What is the term for a fish that must stay in one salinity zone?
There is no specific jargon which is used to describe a fish that can only stay in one salinity zone.
What is the Salinity of the Abyssal zone?
34.8 parts per thousand
How much sunlight is in the sunlight zone?
The amount of salinity that there is in the sunlight zone is about 3.5 percent. About 90 percent of sea life also resides in this zone.
A zone in which the ocean's salinity increases rapidly with increasing depth is called?
halocline
What are two ways water biomes are classified?
Water biomes can be classified based on their salinity levels as either freshwater (low salinity) or marine (high salinity) biomes. They can also be classified based on their depth and distance from the shoreline, such as shallow water (littoral zone) or deep water (pelagic zone) biomes.
What is the average precipitation of the benthic zone?
please answer!!!! The neritic zone is the very shallow area near the coast- that's all I can help with for now!!!!Answerplease answer!!!! The neritic zone is the very shallow area near the coast- that's all I can help with for now!!!!
The area of shoreline that is alternately exposed and submerged?
The Intertidal Zone is the area that is exposed at low tide and then covered at high tide. This zone is then subdivided into 6 other zones including the Black Zone, Periwinkle Zone, Barnacle Zone, Rockweed Zone, Irish Moss Zone, and the Kelp Zone.
What part of speech is salinity?
Salinity is a noun.
