| Have
you ever wondered how much salt the Heavenly Father put
into the ocean to make seawater? If you filled the average
bathtub with ocean water (60 U.S. gallons), there would
be about 19 pounds of salt dissolved in the tub! |
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Now, the ocean is much bigger than your bathtub.
There are approximately one-and-a-half-billion billion tons
of water in the sea. If God took all the salt out of the ocean
and placed it on land, every nation in the world would be covered
500 feet deep in salt. That's a lot of salt!
You can get an idea of just how salty seawater
is by making a glass yourself!
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SUPPLIES: |
- a drinking glass
- 8 ounces of water
- one-half tablespoon table salt
- a spoon
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Fill the glass with eight ounces of tap water
and add one-half tablespoon of ordingary table salt. Mix the
salt thoroughly until it is dissolved. You may taste your artificial
seawater, BUT DON'T DRINK IT! Pretty salty, eh?
The salt found in real saltwater,
the kind that the Lord Jesus made, is mostly table salt (sodium
chloride). Other ocean salts include: magnesium sulfate, calcium
sulfate, and potassium chloride. Of course, seawater also contains
a number of minerals, microscopic organisms, and large and small
particles, so it is much more complicated than most of us realize.
It seems that everything God has made is more complex than we
first imagined, which only goes to show how great He is!
Find out more about creatures
of the sea on our kid's learning pages!