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The Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica is salt water, the saltiest ocean water on earth. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent is fresh water -- the store of 60%-70% of all the fresh water on earth
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoThe Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica is salt water -- with the highest mineral content (salts) of any ocean on earth.
The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent is fresh water -- 70% of the earth's store. The ice sheet is also 90% of the earth's store of ice..
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∙ 14y agoNo it's salt water I belive. Well, the the thick ice under-neath the snow is saltwater.
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By the time it's frozen solid on the continent, it's fresh water; the stray salt minerals have been pressed out of the ice.
As the sea ice freezes, which is about 3% salt, this occurs at a lower temperature than freezing fresh water.
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∙ 10y agoThe ice that makes up Antarctica is completely fresh.
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∙ 9y agoFreshwater. In winter, however, when the sea ice freezes -- salt water -- and connects to the freshwater ice sheet on land, you have both.
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∙ 9y agoThe oceans surrounding Antarctica are salt water; the ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent is frozen fresh water.
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∙ 10y agoThe waters around Antarctica are salt water. The water frozen into the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent is fresh water.
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∙ 12y agoIf you are wanting to know if the water consists of both salt water and fresh water, then no. It is chiefly fresh water.
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∙ 13y agoi believe it is both
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Is water found around Antarctica fresh water or salt?
Antarctica is surrounded by a salt-water sea: the Southern Ocean.
Is Antarctica salt water yes or no?
No.Antarctica is a continent (there is fresh water ice on land and in the salt water sea around Antarctica).
Is the water salty tasting or fresh in Antarctica?
The Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica is a salt-water ocean. The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica is frozen fresh water.
What types of ice are there in Antarctica?
salt water ice and fresh water ice
What sea located around Antarctica?
The salt water around the continent of Antarctica is called the Southern Ocean.
Do both the Arctic and Antarctic contain salt water or fresh water?
The Arctic ocean, and the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica, are both salt water. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent of Antarctica holds about 70% of the earth's fresh water.
Is the water in the Antarctic saltwater?
The ice on Antarctica fell as snow and is therefore not salty. The sea ice forming around Antarctica releases the salt as the sea water freezes.
How much water in the Earth comes from antarctica?
Seventy one percent of earth's surface is water -- salt water. The ice sheet in Antarctica holds about seventy percent of earth's fresh water.
What marine environment live in Antarctica?
Marine means sea or ocean -- salt water. Antarctica is a continent. No marine animals live on any continent.
How cold is Antarctica's ocean?
If liquid, the salt water may be as cold as 27 degrees F, because of the minerals in the water.
How cold antarctica is cold?
If liquid, the salt water may be as cold as 27 degrees F, because of the minerals in the water.
Why can't a saltwater fish live in freshwater?
If the salt water fish were to be put in fresh water then their high salt content inside their bodies (to prevent too much salt diffusing into their bodies) will have it diffusing out down the concentration gradient; killing them. If the fresh water fish were to be put in salt water then their low salt content inside their bodies (to prevent too much salt diffusing out of their bodies) will have it diffusing in again down the concentration gradient; killing them.
