Question

Farmlands are often threatened by the application of salt to roads during the winter months. Explain how the application of salt to the roads could affect crops, based on your knowledge of osmosis.?

Please be specific on this one plz.

Answer 1

The salt can get into the soil, causing all the water from the crops to escape (damaging and even killing the crops)

Explanation:

Because there is so much salt being applied, the soil around the crops is going to become really concentrated with salt (much more concentrated than the inside of the crops' roots). Osmosis states water will flow from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration. Thus, the water from inside the unconcentrated roots will flow to the concentrated soil.