Why is the ocean salty?

Ever wonder why the ocean tastes like a giant bowl of salty soup? It all starts way up high when RAIN falls from the clouds and splashes onto the ground. That rainwater is lookin' for a snack, and it finds it inside ROCKS! See those little sparkly bits? That's tiny salt hidin' inside the stones, and the water washes it right out. Then, those RIVERS act like a big, blue slide, carryin' all that yummy salt down from the mountains. Finally, the water dumps everything into THE OCEAN. The salt settles in and decides to stay forever! But guess what? THE SUN is like a giant vacuum. It lifts the fresh water back up into the sky, but it leaves all the heavy salt behind. That's why the ocean stays so salty! Tiny Concepts.