explain why there is a deadsea? where is that?

Answer 1

Dead Sea is a salt lake between the West Bank and Israel to the west, and Jordan to the east.The sea is called "dead" because its high salinity means no fish or macroscopic aquatic organisms can live in it, though few quantities of bacteria and microbial fungi are present.

Answer 2

The Dead Sea is a salt lake between the West Bank and Israel to the west, and Jordan to the east. From what I understand, it was once a thriving salt water sea, but was cut off from the rest of the Mediterranean at some point. The water began to evaporate and was not replentished. The salt stayed in the lake, but with less and less water every year. Now it is about 30% salt. Normal ocean water is about 3.5% salt. So nothing can live in anything that salty.

I have been there. You float on the top. It is really amazing. But don't get any in your eyes. It REALLY burns!!!

Answer 3

The Dead Sea is a salt lake between the West Bank and Israel to the west, and Jordan to the east. It is also the second saltiest body of water on Earth, with a salinity of about 30 percent, about 8.6 times greater than average ocean salinity. Only Lake Asal (Djibouti) has a higher salinity. The Dead Sea measures 67 km (42 miles) long, 18 km (11 miles) wide at its widest point. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley. The main tributary is the Jordan River.

If you want to know why it is so, and what phenomens contributed to create the dead sea click on this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea

Answer 4

Evidently all the others did not read the question. It does not ask how salty the Dead Sea is but why it is there. The reason it is there is that there is rifting going along that portion of SW Asia. It is the same process that rifted Arabia away from Africa and that is causing the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa. The Dead Sea rift is undergoing extension, which means that magma is rising up from the mantle and thinning the continental crust, causing subsidence. This rift allows a saline lake (the Dead Sea) to be there.

Answer 5

It's not really a sea but a very salty lake similar to the Great Salt Lake in Utah. It got that name because of it's high salt content that was thought to be too high to support any life or fish of any kind but modern science has found life there and in the most inhospitable places on Earth.

Answer 6

is a salt lake between Israel and Jordan
the Hebrew word for Dead Sea means "sea of salt," or "sea of death."

so it's called dead because the salt levels are too high (it's the second in the world) and no fish or macroscopic aquatic organisms can live in it, though minuscule quantities of bacteria and microbial fungi are present.

Answer 7

it is dead due to the high salt content, nothing can survive in it, you cannot even swim in it. My Dad tried to swim in it and you only float due to the salt levels. It is somewhere near Jordan, Israel, the holy lands.

Answer 8

The salinity is too high