Sinkholes

Sinkholes was an artical on dogo news that my reading group read. It was about sinkholes around the dead sea causing the sea to reduce every year.

Questions:

a) Where is the dead sea and what makes it unique?

b) Why does it attract so many visitors?

c) What is causing so many sinkholes around the Dead Sea?

d) What is one possible solution to preventing the dead sea from disappearing altogether?

e) Why are environmentalists concerned?

Answers:

a) In Israel because it has more salt and you can float easily on the water

b) Because it is an relaxing place and fun, also people might go for the mud

c) Because the water level shrinks which causes the salt to melt away, when they do it leaves behind large empty spaces below the ground. Eventually there isn’t enough minerals and the ground collapses

d) To let the Jordan river to flow freely.

e) Because mixing waters from different habitats has unknown results

If you were a geologist what might you try to solve this problem?

I would put a limit on the mining companies, because we might need to use some of the things they make with the materials from the dead sea.