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What would happen if the oceans suddenly vanished?

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The oceans are very important to the planet because they're the primary water source. Water is necessary for life and every living things need enough water to survive long enough. There are other water bodies like lakes and rivers but the ocean is the biggest thing because they help retain life and keep the planet habitable enough. Many fishes and sea animals live in the ocean, so they're home to these animals, including fishes. They also help regulate the world's temperatures.

Solar radiations can be dangerous as it can heat the planet up but the oceans absorb most of the solar radiation, so the planet won't keep on heating up. The other thing is about the carbon cycle and the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide and other air pollutions are greenhouse gases, which means they pollute the air and trap some heat. The carbon sinks are objects that absorb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases and replace with oxygen, so we can say that they're objects that help clean the air.

A plant is a carbon sink because it absorbs carbon dioxide and produces oxygen. However, just one plant won't do much of absorbing carbon dioxide and they're quite inefficient, so it takes a lot of them to absorb more carbon dioxide. The ocean is a carbon sink and acts like plants. The ocean is a much better carbon sink that plants. The oceans can absorb vast tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases replace with oxygen. They do much more than plants and they're very efficient, which is more efficient than plants. When the ocean replace the carbon dioxide with oxygen, then the oxygen is then distributed to the land, which is for people, animals and other living organisms to survive. The ocean is a more dominant carbon sink than plants, so the ocean can be a "very dominant carbon vacuum" or "giant carbon vacuum", because it looks that they vacuum vast amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

To get to the question point about the ocean vanishing. If the oceans suddenly vanished, there would be a terrible and catastrophic effect. The first thing that would happen is that people will be in a mass panic for water, especially if they might get thirsty and dehydrate to death.

The next thing that may happen if that fish and sea animals will die because the ocean's disappearance means no more home for them. The boats that are floating on the oceans will sink down to the barren seabed.

The planet will become uninhabitable because the ocean is the primary water source for life. Plants, animals, and other living organisms will start to hydrate to death and die out due to lack of water. If the plants die, then animals will also starve to death because there'll be no more food.

In the food chain, the primary consumers or herbivores will firstly die out, and then the secondary consumer will also die out, and the devastation will keep going up the food chain and so on and so forth. However, the food chain devastation may happen abruptly because animals also need water to survive, so they'll also die out together with the plants.

The solar radiation will begin to bombard and strike the planet more and heat up more because there'll be no more oceans to absorb these nasty solar radiations. There'll only be very little oxygen left and too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere because there'll be no more oceans to vastly absorb these greenhouse gases. There's still plants to absorb greenhouse gases, which is another carbon sink, but there are some tragic sides with the plants.

This is a scary greenhouse catastrophe. Without oceans, plants will also die out, which removes another carbon sink. Without oceans to vastly absorb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, the carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases will begin to overwhelm the planet, which can heat up the planet more. The planet might look like Venus and temperatures might reach hundreds of degrees, which is too hot to survive and we may burn to death by the very intense heat. The planet would become an uninhabitable and barren wasteland.

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