What if there was more land than water?

What if there was more land than water?

The swapping of land and water would have many effects on Earth’s lifeforms. The temperature would rise drastically, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere would decrease, and the amount of carbon dioxide would increase. All of this would make living on the planet hard.

Will the world be covered in water?

The simple answer is no. The whole world will never be underwater. But our coastlines would be very different. If all the ice covering Antarctica , Greenland, and in mountain glaciers around the world were to melt, sea level would rise about 70 meters (230 feet).

What would happen if the world was covered in water?

Answer 1: 71% of the world is already covered with water. If the rest of the Earth were covered with water, then the entire planet surface would become one massive saltwater ocean and virtually every species that lives on land or in freshwater(e.g., streams, rivers, and lakes) would go extinct (die).

What if the oceans disappeared?

But let’s get back to what would happen if the oceans were gone. Without clouds forming over the ocean, rain would be incredibly rare, and the planet would become desert. We’d watch our lakes and water supplies dwindle a little more every year until nothing was left. Humans might survive for a while near our homes.

What if our Sun became a black hole?

Even if the Sun somehow converted into a black hole without the initial expansion, explosion and, inevitably, mass loss that normally accompany such transformation, a solar mass black hole will still be tiny! Black holes are about mass squeezed into a point of infinite density, called singularity.

What would happen if the Earth was 70 land and not water?

The land would absorb the heat faster and release it back into the atmosphere at night. Due to less water on the planet there would be less heat absorbed and less clouds. This would mean that much of the planet would have either desert like conditions or be very humid and rainforests would be more common.

Is there more water or land in the world?

In simplest terms, water makes up about 71% of the Earth’s surface, while the other 29% consists of continents and islands.

How much water is on the earth?

How much water is that? It’s roughly 326 million cubic miles (1.332 billion cubic kilometers), according to a recent study from the U.S. Geological Survey. Some 72 percent of Earth is covered in water, but 97 percent of that is salty ocean water and not suitable for drinking.

Is Earth a water world?

This month, a researcher at Harvard University published new evidence that Earth itself was once a water world, with its own global ocean and very little, if any, visible land. Seawater also percolates down into oceanic crust. There, it hydrates igneous rocks, transforming them into what are called hydrous minerals.

What color is the real sun?

white

What will happen if there is no water on Earth?

With no water supply, all vegetation would soon die out and the world would resemble a brownish dot, rather than a green and blue one. Clouds would cease to formulate and precipitation would stop as a necessary consequence, meaning that the weather would be dictated almost entirely by wind patterns.