“You just wait and see!” Vevi retorted.
Miss Gordon began to tell the girls about the ocean. The Atlantic, she said, had more salt than most large bodies of water.
“Rivers are largely responsible,” she went on. “Can anyone guess why?”
No one could answer so Miss Gordon told the girls that each year the rivers carried large quantities of soluble mineral matter to the sea.
“Salt doesn’t dissolve easily. Therefore, each year the amount in the ocean keeps increasing.”
“Some day will the entire ocean be a big bed of salt?” asked Rosemary anxiously.
“No, the rivers never could carry that much,” Miss Gordon smiled.
Jane, who had noticed a jellyfish on the beach that morning, asked the teacher to tell about them.
“Their bodies consist of a jelly-like substance,” Miss Gordon explained. “They have no skeleton. Some types have stinging cells.” “I know because I stepped on one!” cried Connie. “How do they move through the water when they have no legs or fins?”
“By muscular tissue action. Oh, that reminds me! We’re to have a jellyfish hunt this morning.”