Sea Monkeys are actually brine shrimp of the genus Artemia, and Great Salt Lake is full of the species Artemia franciscana.
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Wading birds (wood storks, roseate spoonbills, night-herons, bitterns and egrets), waterfowl, rails, pelicans, gulls and terns, alligators, turtles and river otters may be found around numerous lakes, marshes and the St.
Recreation in, and around, the lakeThe best place to swim or float in the lake is at Antelope Island State Park, where white oolitic sand beaches provide easy access to the lake without the brine flies that are prevalent on other areas of the shoreline. The beach area also has showers to rinse off the salty water.
A) The Great Salt Lake is so salty that the only living things in the lake are algae, bacteria, brine shrimp and brine flies. B) Algae is a very small plant and that is the diet of the brine shrimp and brine fly.
Great Salt Lake is between 3.5 and 8 times saltier than the ocean. The organisms that live in the water have special adaptations that allow them to survive such saline conditions. Air blocks much of the sun's DNA-damaging ultraviolet light from reaching the surface of the earth.
Whales live in the ocean. Great Salt Lake is a landlocked lake. There would be no way for them to get there and not enough for them to eat even if they did get there.
The state of Utah owns basically most of the Great Salt Lake, including Antelope Island, Fremont Island, Gunnison Island, the Ogden and Farmington bay wetland areas, along with the entire lakebed.
However, the most deleterious effect of the Great Salt Lake drying up is that the air surrounding Salt Lake City could sporadically become poisonous. Since the bed of the Great Salt Lake holds high levels of dangerous particles like arsenic, antimony, copper, zirconium, and various heavy metals.
Even when the water temperature is in the 20's (°F), the lake does not freeze, due to the high salt content of the water; but icebergs have been ob- served floating on the lake's surface, formed from freshwater that flows into the lake from tributaries and freezes on the surface before it mixes with the brine.
Because of the abundant algae and halophiles, as well as the high salinity, the lake does not support fish — but it teems with brine shrimp and brine flies, which provide essential nutrition for migrating birds.