According to the surviving evidence, the first person to write the word geography was a
Thucydides
b
Strabo
c
Thales of Miletus
d
Eratosthenes
e
Aristotle

places of higher salinity. there are parts of the ocean where hardly any rain falls but warm dry winds cause lots of evaporation. this evaporation removes water – when water vapour rises into the atmosphere, it leaves the salt behind, so the salinity of the seawater increases. this causes the seawater to become denser.