Where does the water go?

The Mediterranean Basin

Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean

Sea

Black Sea

Nile and Red Sea

Spain

FranceItaly

Greece

Libya

Egypt

Israel

Turkey

AlgeriaMorocco

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The Mediterranean Basin

Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean

Sea

Black Sea

The Mediterranean Basin

Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean

Sea

Black Sea

The warm climate of the Mediterranean causes more evaporation and leaves more salt behind. The saltier water sinks and goes into the Atlantic on the bottom of the Strait of Gibraltar.

Surface Current

Underwater Current

Saltier Water

Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah)

The Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah were created when an inland (salty) sea with no outlet evaporated away. The salt is left behind and has created a very large flat area.

The Great Salt Flat of B-14

Saltwater

The water evaporates leaving the salt behind

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You might recognize the salt flats from movies that were filmed there.

In the wetter season, new water can bring even more salt and evaporate leaving behind cool patterns in the salt.

Why are the oceans salty?As the water precipitates onto the land the water dissolves

salts and minerals from the rocks. The salt and minerals travel with the run off and eventually wind up in the ocean.

As you can see by the demonstration table, water can evaporate into the air (atmosphere) but salts and minerals cannot and so are left behind. In this case left in the ocean.

This process occurs over and over making the oceans salty.

Great Salt Lake (Utah)

The Great Salt Lake has no outlet so the only way the water has to go is up. This makes the lake incredibly salty.

Dead Sea (in Jordan near the Mediterranean)

The Dead Sea also has no outlet. These bodies of water are so salty that very few salt loving organisms can live here, but nothing else (Dead Sea).