How much deeper would the ocean be if that didn't happen?
2006-06-26 08:22:40 · 15 answers · asked by dread pirate lavenderbeard 4 in Environment
Sponges are a very simple form of animal life. They use the support of the surrounding water (rather than an internal or external skeleton) to maintain their shape. Living sponges to not absorb seawater, they simply live in it like all other sea creatures.
Here's a fun fact about sponges: if you separate the cells of a living sponge they will reform into a functioning sponge. Don't try this with your cleaning sponges at home--they're not alive!
2006-06-30 03:53:42 · answer #1 · answered by Ms. Tyrrell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really know how much deeper the ocean would be. I do know that not all sponges we see are from the ocean. If it is labelled natural sea sponge, or natural sponge, it is from the sea. The rest are man-made.
2006-06-26 15:26:39 · answer #2 · answered by mrsfrusciante_01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sponges aren't naturally absorbtive until they're dried and treated. Before the advent of synthetic sponges, they used to be a primary export of Florida.
2006-06-26 15:36:43 · answer #3 · answered by Argon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would be shallower.
volume of the sponge in the ocean = volume of water in it + volume of dry sponge. If you remove the sponge, the water volume remains, but the sponge volume is gone, lowering the water level in the ocean.
2006-06-26 15:27:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It maybe deeper because one life feeds off another life in an ocean, take one species out and it affects others.
2006-07-03 18:06:35 · answer #5 · answered by garyjet20 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may be thinking about a different type of sponge ...
Poriferans are not the type of sponges used to absorb water and wipe off counters.
2006-06-26 17:13:09 · answer #6 · answered by icehoundxx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well yea like sponge bob was born in the ocean
2006-06-26 15:27:22 · answer #7 · answered by beto 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sponges dont dig
when they are in the water they are also full of it .
like this brilliant question
so they do not make any difference to the big picture
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2006-06-30 01:43:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ocean would actually be shallower, because there would be fewer things in it.
2006-06-26 23:51:51 · answer #9 · answered by candy2mercy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i dont know, because coral help the status of keeping the erosion in place, like sponges...
2006-06-26 17:00:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋