Without the Moon, Earth would often be a much darker place at night.
The tides would still occur, but would be driven only by the Sun. So, they would be considerably less dramatic and powerful than what we have.
Tidal differential and intertidal zones would be much smaller. All tides would be much weaker, but in terms of lakes and streams the differences would, of course be slight.
There would be some surprises, but ocean waves, earthquake driven tsunami, and the like would continue to occur. However, earthquakes and volcanism would be suppressed to some extent. This lessening of frictional forces might have, at least a slight cooling effect on Earth's internal temperature.
Some biologists think that the most important step in evolution (life moving to land) may not have occurred as soon, or perhaps at all. So, without the tides, evolution might have employed a very different path, with correspondingly different results in a very different time frame.
Since the moon formed, it has been slowing Earth's spin. The orbiting of Earth's moon is the most influential force affecting the length of Earth's day. As the moon moves farther away, the rate of increase of Earth's day will decrease over time. Earth's day will continue to increase as long as the moon continues to orbit Earth, but its effect will lessen as its orbital distance from Earth increases.
Whatever stabilizing effect the moon has on the orientation of earth's axis would not be in play. Life for us would be much more difficult or perhaps impossible, if Earth's tilt were unstable enough to make predictability of seasonal change, impossibleinstead of only difficult. Flora and fauna would have evolved quite differently, and our biodiversity would have a different look than what we see today. Many species that we now know, would simply not exist.
Venus and Mars, both virtually moonless, seem not to be troubled by unstable axes. Perhaps this is due to the relative fluidity of Venus and relative solidity of Mars. However, there are other environmental factors that might influence stability: speed of rotation, atmosphere, temperature, among others. These two planets share certain properties with Earth, but are very different in many respects.
Earth, and its life, have had to adapt to the presence of our moon and its tides, so of course, without its influences, we know that many things would be different. We may be a little fuzzy though, on the extent and severity of some of those differences.
If Earth didn't have a moon then there would still be day and night.
Day and night are caused by the earth revolving (spinning)around.
When the place you're in is facing the sun then it is day. When it is facing the other way it is night.
It takes the Earth about 24 hours to spin which is why there are 24 hours in a day.
If there was no moon our months would probably be different as they are roughly based on the moon -this would also affect our weeks.
The moon also has an effect on tides.
In winter. It's the axial tilt, 23 1/2 degrees, that causes the seasons. The sun appears to climb higher in the sky each day until June 21, or so. Then it stops climbing ( the summer solstice ) and drops day by day until December 21, or thereabouts ( the winter solstice ). This effect is caused by the tilt in the earth's axis.
Well, as you know the earth rotates for 24 hours. During the day half the earth is sunny and the other half is night. So Canada (where i live) would rotate to the other side. And the 'other side' doesn't have any light
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The question doesn't really have meaning. It's alwaysnight time over roughly half
of the earth, and the exact half keeps changing. If you stay at one place on the earth,
then it's night time for you for roughly half of the time. But if you look at the whole earth
from somewhere else, there's never a time when you can look at it and say "Ah hah !
Now it's night time on earth."
You'd probably be living in Alaska during the summer. You should read the story Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov.
It would be very, very dark (probably pitch black) where there wasn't a street light, lamp, or something of the sort.
The half of the earth that is experiencing the process called "night".
The same as during the day. The same face of the Moon is always pointed at the Earth; so we here on Earth never see the other side.
Away, as the other part of the earth which is being brightened up due to sun rays faces the sun, whereas the left part of the faces away from the sun i.e. it experiences night.
It happens because the Earth rotates. So at any time, half of the Earth is facing the Sun, so it is bright and day time there and the other half is facing away from the Sun so it is dark and night time. As the Earth continues to rotate, parts that were facing the Sun are soon facing away from it and the parts facing away from it are now facing it, so everywhere gets day and night.
The dark season or night time.
An equinox is the time when the day and night are of equal length in a day. It is also the time that the Sun is directly overhead at Earth's equator at noon. A solstice is the time when the day and night are the most different in length of time than any other time of the year. It is also the time that the Sun is farthest from being directly above the Earth's equator at noon.
Maybe... If you believe!
An autumnal equinox is when the day is just as long as the night and the days are getting shorter. This happens in late September for northern hemisphere and in late March for southern hemisphere. It is different in the two hemispheres because of the Earth's revolution around the sun.
Night here on Earth happens when the Earth is in its own shadow.
Nothing really happens to the sun at night. Instead it is what happens to the part of the Earth where it is night. The earth is always turning, and the part that is turned away from the sun and is in shadow is called night. The sun is shining just the same in other parts of the world at the same time that you have night. See the Web Link for a simple explanation of this.
Day happens because we are in the sun's direct light. The sun seems to "arise" when actually the earth is rotating. The moon can be out in the "daytime" the moon's orbit around the earth has little to do with night and day. Although the moon is brighter at night.
they carry on in the night.
No
If that ever happens, it happens because the eastern and western hemispheres are on opposite sides of the Earth, and only 50% of the Earth at a time can face the sun.
The rotation of the Earth on its axis.
day and night
we can prove that the earth rotates on its axis because we experience day time and night time/their is a change from day time to night time / night time to day time....
they carry on in the night.
No. Day and night is determined by what part of Earth is facing the sun. Half of the Earth faces toward the sun and half of earth faces away from the sun. As the Earth spins on it's axis, we get daylight in one side of the earth, and night time in the other side of the earth. It is never possible to have night time, or day time, on all the earth at the exact same time.
No. Day and night is determined by what part of Earth is facing the sun. Half of the Earth faces toward the sun and half of earth faces away from the sun. As the Earth spins on it's axis, we get daylight in one side of the earth, and night time in the other side of the earth. It is never possible to have night time, or day time, on all the earth at the exact same time.