If there are sponges growing at the bottom of the sea, why don’t they suck up all the water?

Question

If there are sponges growing at the bottom of the sea, why don’t they suck up all the water?

Answer 1

It does, that is why the see does not flow over because the sponges suck up the water.  

Answer 2

ratio i guess

Answer 3

because all the sponges at the bottom of the sea live in pineapples so only soak up pinapple juice, just like sponge bob

Answer 4

For the same reason a sponge in your bath doesn't suck up all the water. They can only hold so much.

Answer 5

As the amount of sponges there are couldn't possibly hold all the water

Answer 6

Sponges don't suck up water. Water just passes through their body. Water enters the sponge body through pores, then they are directed in the cavity. Then, water is filtered by the collar cells of the sponge to pick up bits of food, then with the help of these cells, water is pushed out if the sponge body.

It's just a matter of flowing through, not really absorbing in, so there wouldn't be any possibility that they would suck up all the water.

Answer 7

If you put a sponge in a bathful of water, does it soak up all the bathwater?  

Answer 8

They do absorb some, but like other people have said, once it gets saturated with water, it can't take anymore and just stays like that.

Answer 9

Do you see spongebob sucking up all the water???

There aren't possibly enough sponges on the bottom of the sea to suck up all the water. Yes, they do suck up some, but in comparison to the amount of water in the sea its hardy anything.

Answer 10

I drink no more than a sponge

Answer 11

a sponge can only hold so much water