Sea Water?

Question

Why does sea water taste salty? (please no answers like bc it is!)

Ty for all ur answers what i meant by dont say bc there is salt in it, an indepth explaination i.e. where the salt come from e.t.c. sorry every1

Answer 1

There is nearly a 1/4 pound of salt disolved in each gallon of sea water.

Two methods caused the salts to migrate into the oceans.

1.) The water cycle - water evaporating and raining. The rain absorbing CO2 (carbon dioxide) and becomming acidic. THe acidic rain weathering the rocks and ground disolving minerals as it percolates into the ground and eventually makes its way back to the oceans carring the disolved minerals with it.
Above ground volcanic eruptions will dump into the oceans and provide gases that will acidify the rain water

2.) Under water volcanos spewing forth all sorts of materials and gases directly into the ocean water.

Answer 2

Seas are salty because they are at the end of the water cycle where mineral are leeched from rocks and into streams, rivers, lakes, and the ocean.

Since the oceans have no outflow except evaporation, the mineral content (including salt) remains.

Some lakes that have no outflow (e.g. Great Salt Lake, the Dead Sea) can be salty. Some bodies of water can be brackish i.e. a somewhat lower salt content than salt water.

Answer 3

because of the erosion of rocks during the journey of rivers etc making their way to the sea they wash out salts from the rocks n thats the reason why ;p

Answer 4

because there is a lot of salt dissolved in it. If you don't want people to say because there is salt in it ( hence the name salt water), don't ask such an obvious question. Maybe something like what processes lead to there being high amounts of salt dissolved in the oceans waters?

Answer 5

Because it has a high concentration of Sodium Chloride otherwise known as salt.

Answer 6

Because there is salt in it!

Answer 7

Because it isn't not salty.