If the Earth didn't rotate, would there still be ocean tides? Please explain your answer.?

Question

I just don't get it.

Answer 1

Yes, the earths rotation has nothing to do with the tide. The moon rotation is what causes the tides. It is the moons magnetic pull on the water.

Answer 2

Yes.

Tides are caused by both the Moon and the Sun. Since the Earth cannot stop rotating with respect to both bodies, there will always be tides with respect to the other.

For example, the earth's rotation is slowing down, and (after billions of years) Earth will enter into a "tidal lock" with the Moon, so that Earth and Moon will always show the same face to each other. When that happens, the Earth will stop rotating with respect to the Moon, and the tide caused by the Moon's will be permanently "locked" in place on Earth's surface.

But the Earth will not stop rotating with respect to the Sun, so the Sun's daily tide will continue. This is smaller that the tide caused by the Moon, but it will still be there.

Answer 3

Use a little common sense geniuses. The tides don't happen twice day because of the moon. It's obviously the sun that's the main driver since the daily tides are a lot more than the monthly changes. If the Earth rotated once a year, so the sun always stayed in the same spot, the lunar tides wouldn't be that much, since tides aren't just gravitational pull but the surging back and forth of the moving water.

Answer 4

Not as we know them. Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon (and to a lesser extent the sun). As the earth rotates the moon pulls the water toward the side of the earth that is facing it. Thus the twenty four hour rotation of tides.

There would still be some fluctuation of the tides as the moon rotated around the earth--it would be a 28 day cycle.

Answer 5

If the Earth quit rotating the moon would still revolve around the earth causing a high tide twice a month. Also the Earth revolving around the sun would have the effect of two high tides a year.

Answer 6

If the earth and moon were both in tidal lock with each other, meaning that the moon was always on the same side of the earth, tides would still be caused by the sun but would not be as high or low.

This would reduce the amount of microscopic sea life which would reduce sea life in total. Also, the mount of energy produced on the earth would be quite a bit less resulting in a notable cooling which would have a fairly substantial reduction in the amount of rain and an effect on plant life and the production of oxygen.

The existing atmosphere would become more dense as a result of the cooling and you probably would still be able to breath but, life would change quite a bit.

Answer 7

one million) enables create tides. The moon's gravitational pull motives the earth's oceans to bulge in the direction of the moon. there's a 2d bulge that varieties on the different area of the earth additionally. 2) those tides additionally act as a brake for the earth's rotation. Ever attempt spinning a uncooked egg? The annoying shell of the egg needs to pass quickly, however the liquid interior resists momentum adjustments and slows the egg down. think of of the earth as an interior-out egg. 3) The moon's gravity stabilizes the earth's rotation. This enables avert dramatic adjustments interior the poles, which might consequence in wild climate fluctuations. we'd owe our existence partly to the moon! 4) Ever pass camping out in the time of a clean moon? and not utilising a flashlight? Kinda sucked, did no longer it? Nights may well be lots darker devoid of moonlight.

Answer 8

If the Earth didn't rotate, one side would get very hot and the other side would get very cold. Probably the only habitable place would be along the sunset/sunrise line, or terminator as it's called. The oceans would likely evaporate much cloud cover into the atmosphere, trapping the sun's heat in runaway greenhouse effect like on Venus. Venus has a very slow rotation period, and a surface temperature of over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. It's night side temperature is pretty similar because the hot atmosphere from the day side permeates the entire planet.

So, if the Earth didn't rotate, oceans would be a non-issue. I think they would boil away.

Answer 9

the Earth's rotation created wind; tide is caused by the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon. So yes, if the Earth didn't rotate there will still be tides.

Answer 10

tides are caused by the changing gravitational pull of the moon. It has nothing to do with the earths rotation. when the moon is over the ocean it pulls the oceans up just a bit but when it is over the land then the water looses that attraction and goes back to its usual position.