What happens to the earth when it is night time?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

Hope that helped

Answer 5

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."

Answer 6

You'd probably be living in Alaska during the summer. You should read the story Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov.

Answer 7

It would be very, very dark (probably pitch black) where there wasn't a street light, lamp, or something of the sort.

Answer 8

The half of the earth that is experiencing the process called "night".

Answer 9

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.

Answer 10

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.