Part one of term paper
Brackish water is a fairly salty mixture of freshwater and sea water. It is unique in numerous ways and is a life giving ecosystem. To understand what brackish water is, a background should be known about its sources. First of all, there is freshwater. Out of all the water on the planet, only three percent of it is fresh, and only one fi ...

Part two of term paper
... Seawater consists of fifty- five percent chlorine, and thirty-one percent sodium (Groliers). It makes up approximately ninety-seven and two tenths percent of the total volume of the world's water, and covers more than seventy percent of the earth's surface (Groliers). Sea water doesn't just contain hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and chlorine; it also contains every naturally occurring element. Although seawater has a fairly constant ratio of major elements, salinity and seawater can fluctuate ...