The Baltic sea

The Baltic sea is:

• an inland sea =morze śródlądowe
• not very deep= shallow, about 52 m deep on
average ( the deepest at 459 m Landsort depth)
• bigger than Poland -415 000 square kilometers
(Poland 312 679 square kilometers)
• a shelf sea = morze szelfowe
• connected with about 250 sweet water rivers
• not very salty-its salinity (zasolenie) is about
7,5%
• quite cold-0-2 degrees in winter, 13-22 degrees in
summer
The coastline-very diversified
 The coastline.The Balctic sea:
• has islands (the biggest one-Zealand; the polish
ones- Wolin and a part of Usedom)
• has peninsulas like Hel Peninsula or Vistula Spit
• has gulfs like the Gulf of Finland or
the Gulf of Bothnia
• in the south it’s flat and sandy with some cliffs
• in the north it’s rocky called skerry
(szerowe/szkierowe)
 Hel Peninsula
• Peninsulas, also called spits –landforms
(mierzeje) are a result of the

CREATIVE
activity
of the sea
 Skerry coasts or cliffs
are created by the

DESTRUCTIVE ACTIVITY
called

ABRASION
 TEMPERATURE
The Baltic sea is cold :
• in summer – 18-22 degrees in the
south
-13 degrees in the north
• in winter – 0-2 degrees
• The Gulf of Bothnia freezes in winter
SALINITY -zasolenie

LOW 7,5 ‰.
The Baltic Sea is actually the sweetest
of all sea in the world.
 WHY???
Average ocean - 35 ‰ by
the way
• NOT ENOUGH salt water from the Atlantic
ocean through the North Sea due to narrow
straits (cieśniny)
• LOTS OF SWEET WATER from the rivers
• LOW EVAPORATION (parowanie) because the
sea is cold
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
 POLLUTION-zanieczyszczenie
• From rivers –nitrogen and phosphorus from
farmfields
• Municipal wastewater and industrial
wastewater=sewage
• Oil spills
• EUTROPHICATION –the growth of
PHYTOPLANKTON (fitoplankton,zielenice)
 BUT
DESPITE ALL THE POLLUTION
People love our sea 
beceause………
It’s FULL of attractions
 Even MORE impressive lighthouses-15 of
Impressive cliffs them
The Baltic Gold=Amber
 And sometimes……..
you can find animals or insects in it
ANIMALS
 INTERESTING FACTS

During the Roman Since 1720 the sea has

Times the Baltic Sea was frozen completely over
called Mare 20 times.Last time it
Sarmaticum was in 1987.

It is believed that Baltic

formed about 10-12 There are about 124
thousand years ago, shipwrecks at the
following the last bottom of the sea
glaciation
• In some countries (Finland) Baltic is called
„The Eastern Sea” –funny (it’s west of Finland)
• Part of World War I was fought in the Baltic
sea
• There are more than 85 million people living
in the region of the Baltic Sea
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