year 7 science question help?
Question by mohsenandamal: year 7 science question help?
The River Jordan flows into the Dead Sea. No streams leave the Dead Sea
and the fierce sun causes sufficient evaporation to keep the water level of
the Dead Sea constant. The water in the River Jordan contains a small
amount of dissolved salts. Would you expect the Dead Sea to become
more salty each year, less salty each year, or stay about the same
concentration? Explain your answer.
Best answer:
Answer by zenandnow8888
the same. as much salt will evaporate as not, won’t it?
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Reader Comments
it increase salty more
The whole point of the Dead Sea, and the reason it’s called that in the first place is the fact that it is so salty that no organisms can survive in it. Now, if the River Jordan is regularly flowing into the Dead Sea and depositing more dissolved salt into it, it will gradually grow saltier – and since evaporation from the sun only removes water from a body of water, leaving behind any minerals or contaminents, and no other branches remove anything, water or minerals, then the salt levels will never decrease. Therefore, ecologically speaking, the Dead Sea ought to grow saltier each year. However, taking into account that people are regularly removing salt from the sea for both environmental and economical purposes, there is a possibility that this balances the small percentage of salt deposited there every year, thereby causing the sea to remain just as salty as it’s ever been.