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Why is the Dead Sea dead?

Source info:

Author: Earth Learning Idea
Date: 2014-12-22 18:49:00
Blog: Earth Learning Idea
URL: http://earthlearningidea.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-is-dead-sea-dead.html

Summary:

The new Earthlearningidea, published today is 'Why is the Dead Sea dead? - measuting salinity'. This involves a simple activity to measure the density of water of different salinities. Pupils can visualise how the measurement of the density of a liquid equates to the commercial measurement of density in situations like that of the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake. This is one of many activities

Content analysis:

Geographic context:

LocationCountryLatitudeLongitude
Dead SeaJO31.502735.4809
Salt Lake CityUS40.7776-111.931

Keywords:

activities, commercial measurement, Dead Sea, density, different salinities, Great Salt Lake, measuting salinity, new Earthlearningidea, Pupils, Resources and Environment, simple activity, situations

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