Why are lakes without outlets salty?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Salts are dissolved from the landscape and arrive in runoff water. More salts are dissolved from materials on the lake bottom. Evaporation concentrates the salts.

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A) A dust-bowl economy. B) The economic cycle. C) A boom-bust economy. D) The forty-year cycle.

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The Kuiper belt is the source for ________.

A. shooting stars B. long-period comets C. asteroids D. short-period comets

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