Question

Temperature and salinity both influence the movement of water in deep-ocean currents. What type of pattern do deep-ocean currents show?

A.
warm and low salinity

B.
warm and high salinity

C.
cold and low salinity

D.
cold and high salinity

Answer 1

@pooja195

Answer 2

Can you help me?

Answer 3

which one do u think it is?

Answer 4

I have no idea.

Answer 5

does salt dissolve more warm or cold water?

Answer 6

the amount of salt is salinity

Answer 7

so more salt dissoved in warm water; so you high salinity would come with warm water, and low salinity would come with cold water; so with that... your solution is either B. or C..... which do you think?

Answer 8

B

Answer 9

its actually D

Answer 10

D is correct, but you sure took an unexpected and out of no where turn for it after saying "your solution is either B. or C....." and then jumping to D. @pooja195

Allow me to explain.
The ocean gets much darker the farther you descend, since you get farther from the surface, and the water breaks the light. As we all know, the reason we are all warm and comfy on planet Earth is because of the Sun's warmth, that comes through the atmosphere. If the sunlight can't get to you, neither can its warmth. The same thing can be observed in the shade. So if its deep, its sure cold down there! That makes A and B incorrect.

Now on to the saltiness.

Ocean water gets more dense as temperature goes down. So, the colder the water, the more dense it is. Increasing salinity also increases the density of sea water. This means that the deeper it is, the higher the salinity is.

I rest my case.

And also.... You just copy pasted ;] @pooja195 http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/53062a31e4b00fb1e236addf