If u do know then i'll be kind enough to give u 10pts.
2006-12-11 12:47:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Water around Antarctica is saltwater as it is ocean. The salinity is actually a slight bit higher as the ice freezes, it takes less salt with it than water. If you taste Sea-ice, you will still taste salt, so it IS actually mildly salty. The temp is low enough that even saltwater will freeze and more ice will not just melt it.
Other water, such as lake frixle and lake bonnie, in the taylor dry valleys off of the Ross sea are fresh water, as they are from polar ice caps (from well above the ocean level) cause from thousands of years of percipitation, and so the glaciers, the ice cap, and the snow that has not been contaminated by ocean salt will be fresh water.
2006-12-13 15:08:09 · answer #1 · answered by TheHangedFrog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The water around Antarctica is salt water, even as the ice melts it mixes quickly and retains a pretty standard salinity. Also the cylce of evaporation will help mitigate the influx of fresh water. It is possible that bays and inlets may be less saline than areas exposed to the open ocean.
2006-12-11 23:34:39 · answer #2 · answered by t433_sd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the water around Antarctica is frozen. You can melt it for fresh water, But the ocean around the continent is salty.
2006-12-11 20:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course salt water because Antarctica was bounded by oceans and seas and oceans and seas are saltwater
2006-12-11 20:57:24 · answer #4 · answered by jamaica 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really it is fresh water because if you come to a conclusion with the glaciers, salt melts ice so it is obviously fresh water so there you have it.
2006-12-11 23:08:06 · answer #5 · answered by Ashley G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
antarctica is a continent in ocean water. ocean water is salt water.
2006-12-11 20:49:36 · answer #6 · answered by z-hag 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋