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Presumably the question is about the Earth's rotation stopping.
Eventually, the Earth WILL almost stop rotating on its axis and will become "tidally locked" with the Moon. Then the Earth Moon system will rotate with each facing the other, in "synchronous rotation". At that time and ignoring other things that might happen first, The Earth would no longer have tides.
If you want to be really "picky" the Earth would still be rotating very slowly, in that scenario.
If the Earth's rotation could stop completely, there would be some (very slow) tides.
Also, there would still be a very small effect caused by the Sun.
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What would stop the earth from having tides?
If the Earth (more or less) stopped rotating.
If all the ice melted and the tides stopped would water cover the earth or would there still be some dry land?
There would be some dry land.
If the earth didn't rotate would the earth still have tides?
No
What would happen to tides if Earth stopped rotating?
It would mean that the Earth had stopped rotating.Even the complete disappearance of the Moon would not stop the tides,because the Sun has a lot of influence on them too. Even without theMoon, there would still be substantial tides, as long as Earth continuedto rotate.(Also note that if the Earth stopped rotating, the disappearance of the tideswould be the least of our problems.)Just to be clear, the tides will stop when the Earth stops rotating relative to the Moon. It would still have some rotation relative to the stars. The Earth's rotation is actually very slowly slowing down. So, eventually, the Moon should only be visible from one side of the Earth.Even then there would still be some rotation relative to the Sun. So, if you want to be really "picky" the tides would not stop completely.This process will take billions of years, so the Sun becoming a red giantmay "spoil" things.
If the moon were closer to earth high tides would?
If the Moon were closer to the Earth, the high tides would be higher, and the low tides would be lower.
What would happen to the earths tide if the moon was further away?
High tides would be smaller and low tides would be bigger, but would still occur. The cause of the tides is the gravitational attraction between the earth and moon, and to a lesser extent, between the earth and sun. If the moon were further from the earth, its gravitational attraction would be less strong, and its effect on the earth's liquid envelope would be correspondingly less.
What would happen if there were no tides?
If there were no tides, Earth wouldn't be the same
What would happen to the tides as a result?
If the moon were to be destroyed there would still be tides. This would be because of the sun still being in assistance and affecting the tides.
What would happen to Earth and tides if the distance between Earth and the Moon increased?
Tides would become stronger.
What would happen to the earth tides if the distance between earth and the moon increased?
Tides would become stronger.
Why is the moon important to us?
The Moon is largely important for the tides. The Sun would still make tides, but they would be smaller. Also, scientists say that the Moon stabilizes the Earth's axial tilt, thus stabilizing Earth's climate.
If moon would not be there what would earth be like now?
One change to earth would be that there would be no major source of light at night. There would also never be any solor, or lunar eclipses. More noticeable yet, tides along coastal areas would be much smaller. There would still be solar tides, but these are a fraction of the height of lunar tides.
