2006-11-23 19:37:37 · 8 answers · asked by Roli Angelo C 1 in Environment
If you spit in Kool Aid it'll still taste like Kool Aid :-)
2006-11-23 19:39:56 · answer #1 · answered by tumbleweed1954 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The levels of salt in oceans do not remain constant. We know that as glaciers melt as they are now it changes the salt levels in the oceans. But to your question the simplest answer is that there is no new water all the water on this planet is what we started out with. It gets recycled. So what we put into it here evaporates and comes back as rain. It a fact that the majority of water on Earth has saline content. It has always been that way and as long as there is water will remain that way.
2006-11-23 19:44:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salt interior the sea comes from rocks on land. The rain that falls on the land includes some dissolved carbon dioxide from the encompassing air. This reasons the rainwater to be somewhat acidic simply by carbonic acid (which varieties from carbon dioxide and water). The rain erodes the rock and the acid breaks down the rocks and consists of it alongside in a dissolved state as ions. The ions interior the runoff are carried to the streams and rivers to the sea. lots of the dissolved ions are utilized via organisms interior the sea and are faraway from the water. Others are actually not used up and are left for long sessions of time the place their concentrations enhance over the years. the two ions that are recent maximum in many circumstances in seawater are chloride and sodium. those 2 make up over ninety% of all dissolved ions in seawater. via ways, the concentration of salt in seawater (salinity) is approximately 35 areas in line with thousand. In different phrases, approximately 35 of one million,000 (3.5%) of the burden of seawater comes from the dissolved salts; in a cubic mile of seawater the burden of the salt, as sodium chloride, would be approximately one hundred twenty million a lot. via some estimates, if the salt interior the sea ought to be bumped off and unfold gently over the Earth’s land floor it might style a layer extra beneficial than 500 feet (166 m) thick, appropriate to the top of a forty-tale place of work construction.
2016-12-17 15:22:29 · answer #3 · answered by midkiff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water cycle.
Water is evaporated from the ocean and leaves the salt behind.
The water falls on land and flows back to the ocean.
2006-11-23 19:42:50 · answer #4 · answered by modulo_function 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The volume of fresh water is so very small compared to what it is trying to dilute. Although, near freshwater inputs, salinity is lower, but there is just so much salt in the ocean, the seawater will always remain salty.
2006-11-23 19:38:52 · answer #5 · answered by cero143_326 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its because the rivers become the ocean, it doesnt dilute the ocean. Because of all the salt that get added into the ocean, even if it did dilute, it would hardly matter. Plus, the freshwater rivers soon get salt added into their own systems once they are emptied out by all the other salt sources. Hope that answers your question!
2006-11-23 19:47:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You take one liter of water and add 500 grams salt in it.
Then boil it to 500 ml.
Add 500 ml fresh water.
The saltiness of the solution would remain same.
This is what is happening in Sea.
2006-11-23 19:44:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because it picks up salts and solids from the Earth's soil, and washes it into the ocean.
2006-11-23 19:46:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋