If the moon suddenly disappered, what would happen to the Earth, cus it controlls winds, tides etc..?

Answer 1

Wind:
It would have little if no effect on our winds, because wind it caused by differences in air pressure. Nothing more, nothing less.

Tides:
There would still be tides, but they would be about half as noticible without the moon's gravitational influence. The sun's gravitational effect on the tides is about 40% of the moon's. When the sun and moon are ligned up, we have the highest high-tides and the lowest low-tides. That proves the sun contributes to tides.

Ocean currents:
It would effect the mixing of cold and warm currents to a small degree, but ocean currents would not stop flowing.

Plant life:
Plants typically have two modes of growth: vegetative and flowering. During vegetative mode they grow up and out. During flowering mode, most of the energy goes into growing it's flowers so it can reproduce. Many plants use the length of uninterrupted darkness ("night") to determine when to start flowering. The moon can interrupt "flowering mode", which tends to make plants grow taller and wider than they would without the light of the full moon. In the moon's absence, plants would tend to be slightly shorter and less massive due to the lack of light-cycle interruption.

Animal life:
Many carnivores tend to hunt at night. The 5 days before and after the full moon give carnivores more light to work with, and improve their chances of finding prey. Without the light of the moon, hunters would have less success and the hunted would have a greater survival rate. Theoretically the number of carnivores would decrease and the number of herbivores would increase, but I'm sure evolution would compensate for this and bring the food chain back into balance.

And yes, without the moon, lunatics could not use the moon as an excuse for their crazy behavior.

Answer 2

If the Moon *suddenly* disappeared, there would probably be devastating earthquakes across the globe -- the gravity of the Moon is a substantial force on the Earth. (Visit the Bay of Fundy for a vivid demonstration of this.) If that force suddenly was nullified, it would be embodied in a gravitational wave that would trigger stressed faults almost simultaneously throughout the globe. Fortunately, there is no known effect that could blip out that amount of mass in the blink of an eye.

In the longer term, ocean tidal effects would become much more subdued but they would not disappear entirely. The Sun does have a noticeable effect; research spring tides and neap tides for more details. Winds would not be significantly affected, they have almost nothing to do with the Moon (but they are powerfully affected, nay almost completely caused, by the influence of solar energy).

In the 1960s it was believed that the primary difference between Earth and Venus was the Moon which skimmed off surplus atmosphere and prevented the Earth from becoming a broiling inferno as Venus is. This theory has since been discredited.

Answer 3

Suddenly?

Massive earthquakes. The moon has about 1% of the mass of the earth, that means the center of gravity of the earth-moon system is eccentric to the earth core by almost 4000 km (that is almost 2/3 of the planet radius). With the moon gone, the center of gravity would have to shift 4000 km, and while this is happening, the earth would be wobbling.

Did I say "massive" earthquakes? I mean mountain range crushing, ocean emptying, continent braking earthquakes.

After that, all the rest that can happen would seem like a walk in the park in comparison.

Answer 4

Tides would ptetty much stop, the sun does have some effect on tides, but it would be a slow seasonal change rather than a daily/ monthly one I would expect. There are a lot of natural rytms which are influenced by the moon, menstrual cyle for example is 28 days like the lunar cycle, there must be some reason for this? maybe this would be subtley changed too?

Answer 5

How human beings be able to get issues thoroughly backwards is previous me... Tides could be tousled, they could be minimum and so sea existence could be very much affected (as ultimately all existence could). night could continuously be darkish like at a clean moon. Our spin isn't that off kilter from the moon so we would speed back up somewhat yet i'm uncertain that that would have a extensive result, a minimum of no longer as at as quickly as simply by fact the tides could. The Earth does no longer be torn aside the two, it extremely is it extremely is very own gravity that holds us at the same time. I think of the seas could cool somewhat besides... hmm possibly we could desire to continuously detroy our moon to try against international warming. finally simply by fact the moon replaced into waiting to straight away pass to the far fringe of the galaxy (in the back of the celebs) this could replace our definition of the fee of sunshine, time return and forth... all physics quite... and that i could could desire to bypass back to college... which of course could piss me off and that would make me somewhat irrate... maximum appropriate to spankings and lashings for all who get in my way.

Answer 6

Tides would cease. The oceans would reach a universal midlevel on all shores. Winds however are controlled by other factors and wouldn't change much.

Answer 7

All life on the earth would disappear. According to some scientists for the reason you gave above. Uncontrolled weather, tides, etc