Because the sea's salt content is so high that it cannot sustain life.
The dead sea is called that because it's too salty to sustain much life, so almost nothing lives in it. As a result, it's called the dead sea.
The Dead Sea is also called the Dead Sea.
Because of its high density due to salts no life found in it.So it is called dead sea.
The Dead Sea also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east, and Israel and the West Bank to the west. The name 'Dead Sea' is actually a kinder, gentler translation from the Hebrew name 'Yam ha Maved', which means, 'Killer Sea'.The Dead Sea has some of the most saline water on earth and the name comes because no living thing can live in that body of water.
The dead sea is not called the dead sea because people sink in it and die, it's called that because there is no water flow, and no creatures swim in it. That is why it is called the dead sea. It doesn't seem to exist, it's like it is dead.
The Dead Sea is called the Dead Sea because it contains so much salt that nothing can live in it.
The Dead Sea is unusual because it is called the Dead Sea but anybody can swim in it and won't drown.
The dead sea
You have named it for yourself. It is the 'DEAD SEA'.
The name of a sea that starts with D is the Dead Sea
The Dead Sea comes from the Arabic, it is also occasionally known as The Sea of Lot. It's called the Dead Sea because the high salt level means that fish cannot live in the sea.The English name has come from the Arabic source, rather than the Hebrew.However, the Dead Sea is occasionally referred to as such in Hebrew, although perhaps not officially, as one can see in the popular Israeli song "Ein Gedi".
nothing lives in there because of the amount of salt whitch is why it is called the dead sea. It is also the lowest point on earth. 100 meters below sea level.It got the name The Dead Sea as thetre is so much salt in it that all things die. for example put a live fish in the dead sea and it would die due to the huge amount of salt in it.