Do the Oceans the world over have the same degree of saltishness?

Question

How about the Arctic and Antarctica regions?What is the major component of the dissolved salts ?

Answer 1

The salinity of specific regions of the oceans depends on the ratio of influx of sweet water and evaporation (or in cold regions, formation of ice, which also increases the salinity of the remaining water) and on the vertical and horizontal currents. The northern Atlantic is the most saline oceanic region, if I recall correctly - probably because of much evaporation in the subtropic zone and then the gulf stream carrying the saline water north.

The dissolved salts are mainly:

cations: Na+, with K+, Mg2+ and Ca2+ as important additional components

anions: HCO3-, Cl- as main components, SO4(2-) a distant third.

To get the salts, simply combine to neutral compounds.

Answer 2

The saltiness in water occurs because of evaporation the , water evaporates leaving behind the salts which were dissolved in it , which in turn makes the oceans salty. As the amount of water evaporating is not same every where (it is more near equator as it is the hottes part of earth) the degree of saltiness is also not same. As the rate of evaporation is very less in Arctic and Antarctica the water bodies near them are least salty.The major components are calcium,magnesium and sodium salts.

Answer 3

No. The Salinity of our oceans differs all over the world.

Salinity (alt content) can differ at or near the surface even because of heavy rains in an area. Then as the rain water is moved around with currents and tides, the levels balance out again. Often the rain is a different temperature than the ocean it falls in so if it is colder, it will want to fall to a deaper depth. The it will mix with saltier water, but will dilute the salinity of the water it mixes with.

 Salinity is the total amount of salts dissolved in the water
 Salinity is measured in parts of salt per thousand parts of water and is expressed as ppt (parts per thousand0 or abbreviated o/oo
 Now salinity really as psu (practical salinity units)

 Average salinity of the ocean is about 35 o/oo or 3.5%


IN fact, bouys have been set all over the world which measure temperature and salinity constantly in an effort to predict ocean currents and weather.
The measurements can indicate ZERO Salinity at or near the surface during or immediately after a rain storm.
You can see that the deaper the water is, the more consitant its salinity is for a particular area of the world. STANDARD salinity seems to differ based on proximity to land masses. *southern atlantic is more consistant than northern atlantic.

Salinity ranges anywhere from zero to 42 parts per thousand or about 4.2 percent

Answer 4

No the salinity of each ocean is dependent on geographics. Seas that have more freshwater inflows (rivers) have a diluted concentration of salts. Seas that coast areas where the land has a high salt level, tend also to have a higher salinity (The Dead sea, although it isnt actually a sea is still a good example)

Answer 5

If you wish to research this on the internet the word to use is salinity but I like saltishness, great improvisation! I believe it varies throughout the Oceans.

Answer 6

More or less constant. Except the surface layers to a small degree - at the equator, more salty due to evaporation and less so at the poles due to glacial/ice-sheet melt.

Not sure about exact figures for dissolved salt load tho'.

Answer 7

No . Salinity varies throughout the oceans, depending on whether freshwater (salinity = 0) has been added by precipitation or removed by evaporation .

Answer 8

Different all over the world, depending on fresh water sources locally, local weather conditions, how deep, and how land-locked the particular stretch of water is. For example, the Mediterranean is very salty, as it is relatively shallow, land-locked, and subject to high levels of evaporation due to high temperatures locally.

Answer 9

the salt levels differ in different parts of the ocean cant remember why though just remember a programme about that current near australia that carries it and cos of pollution it keeps depositing more salt which makes it very difficult

Answer 10

Nope. The degree of saltiness differ from one region to another.