The following map was created using modern technology to determine the overall temperature change of the oceans. Explain how this map could relate to a salinity map. In your explanation, discuss at least three specific locations on the map.

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anonymous · Answer

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e.mccormick · Answer

Well, you should have another map to compare to that one. Not sure what the answer will be, but you can see a similar comparison on this page where they talk about how the evaporation and flow of rivers changes the salinity: http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/ocng_textbook/chapter06/chapter06_03.htm

anonymous · Answer

I don't really understand it still..

e.mccormick · Answer

Well, look at the places on the maps you have been given that are warm and cold.  Are there any similarities to the salinity levels?  Are places that are warmer more or less salty?  Is the opposite true for cold?

anonymous · Answer

I think that it shows the warmer places have more salinity levels..and the colder have less.

e.mccormick · Answer

OK, well, that page I looked at talked a little about evaporation.  What it said was the warmer the area is, the more water evaporates, leaving behind the salt.  That make sense?

anonymous · Answer

Yes, that makes sense.  So the warmer the area is, the more it evaporates leaving the salt behind. So it could relate to a salinity map because it shows the areas that are warmer and colder. So by looking at the warm and cold areas you could determine which locations have more salt levels in average than a cold area?

e.mccormick · Answer

Yah, I think that is a good way of putting it.

anonymous · Answer

So what locations do you think I should talk about?

e.mccormick · Answer

Well, you could pick out any of the hot or cold areas to talk about.  And even a place that is between them if the salinity is also between.

anonymous · Answer

Hmm alright. Thanks so much for the help!

e.mccormick · Answer

np.  Have fun!