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The Earth has been cooling for four and a half billion years, since it was first created as a hot molten ball of rock and metal. It cools from the outside inward, just like any object.
The outer layer of the Earth froze a long time ago. It is solid rock. That rock layer gets a little thicker as time goes on. The core of the Earth is cooling, but slowly. It is about 5,000 degrees C now and has only lost a couple of hundred degrees over the last few billion years.
The oceans are not frozen now, but they probably were sometime in the first half billion years of the existence of Earth. Fortunately, the sun has warmed slightly so the ocean melted and enough greenhouse gases were produced to melt the oceans.
The Earth will continue to cool for about another 4 or 5 billion years, but not enough to freeze the oceans unless some catastrophe occurs.
When Earth gets about 10 billion years old, the Sun will become a red giant and evaporate the oceans and blow off all the atmosphere.
If the Earth is still around after that, then things will get pretty cold and freezing will commence in earnest.
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If earth's oceans were much smaller how do you think climates on earth would be affected?
The earth will freeze
Why can't you freeze barium?
its a metal. on earth its frozen
What kind of precipitation occurs when water droplets freeze as they fall to earth?
snow
Explain the changes the Earth would go through if the Sun were to go out?
Everything would die and freeze. Earth depends on the sun for life. When that goes out, Earth does too.
What happens to a raindrop that falls on Earth?
It could form a lake, evaporate, or even freeze as it falls.
If the earth did not spin?
then the earth will stay still. Everything will freeze
If earth's oceans were much smaller how do you think climates on earth would be affected?
The earth will freeze
Why can't you freeze barium?
its a metal. on earth its frozen
If sun never reached earth?
If sunlight stopped reaching the Earth, the Earth would soon freeze solid.
What would it do if earth didn't have a sun?
The Earth Would Freeze becuase the Sun is the Earth's Light and Heat source.
Would someone on mars freeze or burn up?
freeze
Would a person freeze or burn up on the planet mars?
A person would freeze on Mars. The warmest parts of Mars are about the same temperature as the coldest parts of Earth.
Would a person freeze on earth?
no that is the main reason we live on Earth than human resources and references
What would occur in the Earth if sun went out?
The earth would freeze and life would cease to exist.
What would happened if there was no sun on earth?
If there no sun near by the earth we would freeze to death... Now if there was a sun on earth we would burn
How would earth be affected if the sun cooled?
We would freeze to death
When the SUN will stop rotating what will happened?
The earth will either freeze or overheat
