The earth is a round ball but it you were to cut big chunks out of that ball it would no longer spin smoothly. so what would happen if the oceans were to dry up?
2006-11-02 21:47:09 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
evaporation would need to something for this to happen then where would the vapor go the chances of oceans drying up in our life times of the human race is nill if it happened the cause would have finished us long before have you any more stupid questions
2006-11-02 22:03:48 · answer #1 · answered by burning brightly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likely, barring impact from an object causing the oceans to dry up, it would take time...a LOT of time.
wait for it, still more time for them to completely dry up.
First, the Human race would not survive anything like this happening. First, if the oceans were to "dry up" every other body of water on the planet would be dried as well. Simply put Humans are nothing more than bags of water!
Now, since it would take a LONG time for the oceans to dry up, yes the earth would most likely have some sort of pole shifting to regulate it spinning. It may not be noticable, but there would definalty be a shift.
The oceans drying up would also have a ripple effect as the tides are affected by the gravity of our celestial body, the Moon. Without the "pulling up" effect of the water, what then would the moon pull at? You would have to assume that the shift in the earth, combined with the gravity of the moon would cause yet another shift in the earths axis.
Whew, you could go on and on!
And I did! W00+
2006-11-03 06:02:07 · answer #2 · answered by geohawk1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Explain how the oceans would dry up. The vapor has to go someplace and it's not outer space. Droplets of water become so heavy they fall back to earth before moving into the outer atmosphere. For this to happen, the sun would have to be so very much hotter that we would not be alive anyway and the earth would probably be molten and turn into a round or oval shape again. It will probably happen someday and it could be like some of the other planets and the water would be underground after a molten layer covered the planet caused from the heat and gravitational pull of the sun.
2006-11-03 07:16:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Removing the oceans wouldn't remove "great big chunks".
The diameter of the earth is about 12750 km, with about 20km difference between equator and poles. The maximum elevation difference (Everest to Marianas Trench) is likewise about 20km, or about 0.157% of the diameter. The mean ocean depth is roughly 4km, or 0.03% of the diameter. In fact, if you made a scale model of the Earth, perfect in every detail, the size of a snooker ball, you could play snooker with it - it would be smoother and more regular than a standard ball!
The total mass of the oceans is absolutely miniscule compared with the total Earth mass, so the disapperance of the oceans would have a very tiny impact on rotational inertia.
2006-11-03 07:26:40 · answer #4 · answered by Paul FB 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the earth 'wobbles' on it's axis now and the changing seasons are evidence of the movement.
I think there would be significant changes to the movement of the earth in it's spin and possition in the solar system if anything significant happened to the oceans as a whole.
2006-11-04 08:04:04 · answer #5 · answered by alxx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if this were to happen. think about it. we would not be here due to the intense heat that would evaporate sea water. it really would not matter would it. As to your question, no it would not throw our planet spin off of its axis. it would be rather dry though. not able to support the atmosphere that we now enjoy
2006-11-03 07:09:29 · answer #6 · answered by jh452004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure that they can, but if they did then the moisture would rise into the atmosphere and become big black clouds surrounding the earth so the axis would surely stay the same.
2006-11-05 08:37:53 · answer #7 · answered by patsy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every part of the world would be considered "Dry Land" and there would be no reason for it to spin around anything.
2006-11-03 05:52:21 · answer #8 · answered by vernon s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the water would move to the next planet and we could become martians!
2006-11-03 06:02:34 · answer #9 · answered by JAM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
then well be on a collision course to mars
jokes aside, i think the center of gravity would change only slightly
2006-11-03 05:49:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋