• Question: why don't the ocean freeze

    Asked by T-J to Frank, Ian, Isabel, Jared, Zena on 14 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Zena Hadjivasiliou

      Zena Hadjivasiliou answered on 14 Mar 2015:


      The ocean does freeze but this happens only at very very cold places (like the south and north poles!). Fresh water, which has no salt, freezes at higher temperatures. But the water in the ocean has a lot of salt in it which makes ocean water only freeze at very low temperatures.

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