2007-10-17 15:45:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Do you mean didn't rotate compared to the stars, or compared to the sun?
If the Earth didn't rotate compared to the stars, then a day would be one Earth year long. The sun would rise, take about 6 months to cross the sky and set, then another 6 months of night until it rose again.
So boiling for half a year, freezing for the other half.
No life, no air (would all freeze on the night side), no water (would all freeze on the night side).
If the Earth's rotation was such that it always faced one way to the sun (the way the moon does with Earth), then the sun would never move in the sky. It would be eternal day (and boiling) or eternal night (and freezing). No life, no air (would all freeze on the night side), no water (would all freeze on the night side).
2007-10-17 15:49:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Earth did not rotate there would be NO life.
2007-10-17 19:46:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we wouldnt have magnetic poles and there would be no ice caps at the North and south poles nor would there be an equator
PS- to guy above, we still orbit around the sun, so the whole earth would get light, just alot slower ie 1 sunrise to sunset would be 1/2 a year as would night.
2007-10-17 15:48:23 · answer #3 · answered by science_guy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, one side of the earth would be completely dark and the other would be completely light hence there would only be life on one side of the earth.
2007-10-17 15:47:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
of course there would be life. life exists in the furthest depths of the ocean where no light ever penetrates. light is not necessary for life.....it is for ours, but without rotation you and I wouldn't be around discussing it over the net i guarantee you that.
2007-10-17 20:06:24 · answer #5 · answered by dragoncreep 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life would be different because it most likely would not exist. Or at least not as complexly. Evolutionary pressure would have created different forms of life. How different? Who can say?
2007-10-17 16:05:28 · answer #6 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We'd all die, we need light on both sides. Too much light or too little will drive you crazy, and if one side doesn't have light, it can't produce food. It will depend on the other side, which could not produce enough. Then...we die. The end.
2007-10-17 16:00:45 · answer #7 · answered by lovelypeace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋