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Most of the salt in the oceans come from ______.

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steroids
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rocks on land
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seas
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oceans
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Solution

The correct option is B rocks on land
Most of the salt in the ocean come from rock on the land. So the most significant source of seawater salinity is the chemical weathering of continental rocks and transport of weathered material by the rivers to the oceans.

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