How would be the world whithout South America?

Answer 1

there would be more northern contients whithout South America

Answer 2

Somebody tell GobyDude that neither the Mayan ruins nor Fidel Castro are in South America.

I'm not sure the point of your question. The Earth would not care if there was no South American continent. Nor would there be any reason to think it would have a major effect on the planet's ecosystem, climate, etc. Despite popular belief, Earth's oxygen supply comes from plankton in the ocean, not from rain forests.

Answer 3

There would be less cocaine, a lot less rainforest and potential cures for various disease and all the biodiversity, there would be a lot smaller spanish speaking population, there would be no panama canal, there would be only 6 continents etc. And with or without South American the majority of the land already is in the Northern Hemisphere

Answer 4

Actually quite an interesting question and I will answer it as no joke: First of all, without South America, the Atlantic Ocean would literally cease to exist. Even though the remaining peninsula of Central America would stick out into the Pacific Ocean, it would not be far enough to consider the remaining part of the North Atlantic as an own ocean.
Since the Pacific Ocean is already the largest ocean on Earth, the disappearance of South America would give it such a tremendous gain in size that this goes quite beyond imagination. Not that only the entire Atlantic would be added to its size, so will the "lost" land mass of all of South America as well.
So now, if it happend to be that South America never existed, the entire development of this planet would have taken a different path.
Number one: the Southern Hemisphere, even with South America present, "suffers" a lack of land mass already. The effects of lack of land shows through windier conditions and stronger maritime climates. Only those existing continents such as Australia, Antarctica and South America show continental climates in their center, but there is no comparison to the continental conditions of the far larger land mass on the Northern Hemisphere.
But remember: no South America! Meaning that the Southern Hemisphere now has about 30% less land, and therefore, that "lost" land is even added in favor of the oceans. This opens one single tremendous ocean of a size greater than half of the entire circumference of the world. Only the Indian Ocean remains as an "own" ocean. Across the Southern Hemisphere, this monster ocean would stretch a grueling 13,000 miles from Australia's east coast to West Africa. The nonexistence of the Andes mountain range as a weather and wave barrier would turn the West African coast into the wildest of the world, allowing the untamed "Roaring Fourties" west wind drift to batter this coast with a force of waves and erosion unknown in this world. I am certain that the world's most daring extreme surfers would then gather in Cape Town rather than in Maui......
Australia would experience an extreme maritime climate due to this huge ocean. rain would soak its central deserts at all times. Its west coast around the city of Perth would also be hammered by its relentless weststorm and its huge ocean waves.
The work of our famous discoverers like Columbus, Cook and Magellan would have looked very different, too. The circumnavigation of Earth would have been a bit easier since there was no need to go all the way around Cape Hoorn. And there would not have been the need to look for the northwest passage up in Canada's Arctic. Neither did our pioneers need to dig out the Panama Canal later in history.
Christopher Columbus may have had proven himself right when he stated, that he can reach Asia crossing the ocean from Europe, had he missed the southern tip of Panama on his journey westwards. The empires of Spain and Portugal would have left the Western Hemisphere almost empty-handed.
The entire climate of the world would look different without South America; many, or all the ocean currents would be altered and spread different temperatures to different coasts. The Gulf Stream, a huge warm current providing Western Europe with a warmer climate than usual would be much colder, if it even would exist at all, since its sea of origin, the Gulf of Mexico would now be more exposed to open oceans. A Caribbean Sea without South America is wide open at its southern boundary.
Another issue is hurricanes. I can only speculate if the nonexsistence of South America would make those monsters worse, but in case one would make it across the Atlantic, passes the southern tip of Panama while it remains in warm waters, it would enter the Pacific already as a major hurricane. And if there's no land to stop it, it will turn into a typhoon already by entering the Pacific. What will this typhoon be once it reaches East Asia?? God forbid.
Last point is the nonexistence of the "green lung" of Earth, the Amazon rain forest. No one knows for sure how the oxigene level of our air to breathe would be if the Amazon was not there. With other words, life may have had developed slower on Earth with less oxigene available throughout its history, meaning that we humans may not be here yet......without South America.

Answer 5

No marvellous ladies in world pageants
No excellant football players esp. Brazil
No samba, tango, salsa...
No Amazon forest that has more biodiversity than the whole world.
No Shakira (although she is Lebanse originally)
No talented writers like Gabrielle Garcia
No Incas and Mayans
Spanish Language would not be as widespread as 2day.
No european developement because they depended mainly on SA resources
etc....

Answer 6

Lopsided

Answer 7

round

Answer 8

there would be 6 continents instead of 7

Answer 9

No mayan ruins and maybe no Fidel Castro.

Answer 10

There would be no hot Brazilian guys, and that would suck.