What would a globe of the Earth look like if all the water were removed?

Question

I think I understand fairly well what the Earth would BE like without water. I was just curious about what the planet would look like if viewed from space. My guess would be that it wouldn't be as round and very rough from the depressions that hold the seas.

Answer 1

The Earth would look like a fairly even land basin from a distance. When viewed closer up, there will be regions that rise high above the lower points, which we currently call continents. They would look a bit different than they do currently as the oceans obsure some of the continental shelf.

There will be previously unseen mountain ranges. One long one runs down the middle of where the Atlantic Ocean is. A few others in the Pacific and Indian as well. There will also appear to be so very large mountains in the middle of the Pacific, which currently is the Hawai'ian Islands.

There will also be a number of canyons, such as where the Marianas Trench is. Depending on how you look at it, there may be coral-type mountains as well.

Answer 2

This won't be the "best answer" but perhaps the most somatically "in touch"... it would look like a great sadness... and if you beheld it for real ("For REAL?") after the stages of "loss," i.e.,anger, denial, bargaining... then, at last, you'd acquiese to a tear-filled "acceptance" for the loss of a potential "Camelot" that was to be no longer possible. And you'd question the existence of a loving God (if you had an ounce to faith prior to the event). This "Earth" is a gift... and we can't begin to fully appreciate its worth.
Gazing upon it would be akin to Hibbert's poem "The Lostling"
"Cold & darkness... hunger & fear... No time but now, no place, but HERE!"

Answer 3

There would be no life. Nothing can live without water. Something else would have to replace it, like a kind of gas, like on Venus. Everything needs water to survive. It wouldn't look like it does now, but like any other gas bearing planet.

Answer 4

An dreary orb of darkness because everything would be brown from not having any water! Deer couldn't drink in the nearby streams, beaver would be utterly bored with no reason to build a dam, skelletons of fish and other underwater living animals and creatures, birds would lose their happy cherp, from being utterly parched, the polar bear would overheat, penquins would have nothing to slide on, water snakes would lose their sssssssssss, anyone who had stock in sprinkler systems would be bankrupt!
Gardeners would be outta business..........well...no they could cut a lot of dead grass! Parks would would lose their happy names of visitation because who wants to have a picnic on a dried up field! Lets face it.....death would be on the rise by the second!
What a depressing thought....I'm bummed now....thanks a lot!!
Now I have to go look up a joke so I can smile again!
Take care...MGC
SmileyCat : )

Answer 5

I'm thinking a BIG LUMPY ROCK. Lots of high and low places. But very lonely. No animals, plants, or fishies. A very lonely place indeed. Let's keep the water.

lyn

Answer 6

It would probably look like the Mars landscape in a few years.No life,just sand and rock

Answer 7

Like a very large version of Mercury.

Answer 8

like the earth with no water

Answer 9

i don't even think n e 1 would noe without water life wouldn't exist

Answer 10

it stills looks quite round from a far away positon