How is the ocean blue but rain is clear?

Question

I have a Science Fair project with my friend and we both don't know the answer for this so if you could help me that would be Perfect!!!

Answer 1

Well in fact the ocean is not blue.Depending on the shore-line the sea water appears to be that color.If you take a clear recepticle and collect some sea water,it won't be blue.However the sea can have a slight tinge of different colors.Likewise if you take a sample of water from the mouth of a river,(which is the best source of fresh water,to the oceans)it won't be clear either

Answer 2

The ocean reflects the color of the sky. When the sky is cloudy and grey the ocean looks rather grey also. The ocean is deep enough you can't see thru to the bottom but you can see straight thru a raindrop. So that could make a difference as well. The ocean right next to shore doesn't look very blue. It's too shallow.

Answer 3

The ocean appears blue because it reflects they the sky. The sky appears blue because of light filtering. Because of the angle that light comes into our atmosphere and the content of our atmosphere all wavelengths of light are filtered out except of the blueish (not a real word) tints. This is also why the the sky looks orange as the sun sets. The angle the light is coming through the atmosphere filters out all colours except the orangey types.

Answer 4

The ocean is not really blue, it is clear, but the sun shines on it and reflects the bottom making it appear a colour.

Answer 5

The ocean is blue cuz the athmosphere is Blue (Light blue) (look a phto of the earth from nasa, you'll se the blue around the earth) and the ocean reflects the blue from the athmosphere. I think so.

Answer 6

I think it is because there is not as much rain as there is water in the ocean. When visible light hits the rain, since there's not as much, it appears clear. When it hits the ocean, it appears blue. I think that it also has to deal with the fact that there is a lot more hydrogen and oxygen atoms that are chemically fused together.

Answer 7

Ocian is not always blue. Depends on the density of the water it may differ. U might see even in the same ocian there are 2 seperate colors (most likely Blue and Green)

This is due to Refrection. when the natural light hits the water's surface (depending on the water density) most of the light is refrected in to the water and (most of the time) blue light (or green light or both - depending on the water density) is RELECTED out. This is the only color reaches our eye (well in the optical range ofcourse) so that's why we see it as blue in color.

Answer 8

Blue light penetrates farther into seawater (giving the ocean its distinctive color). At the same time seawater absorbs red, orange, and yellow wavelengths, removing these colors.

The rain has smaller dropplets and is not able to absorb as much of the lower energy wavelengths(red, orange, and yellow)

Answer 9

I think it is because the ocean is reflecting the sky or something, lol! And the rain is clear because it isn't reflecting the sky.

Answer 10

Because blue light is the shortest visible wave length and is the last to be absorbed and filtered out by deep water. If you dove under the water, you would see things would look bluer and bluer until it got too dark to see.