If tall of the oceans were to dry up would it throw the world off of its axis?
958860
evaporation would need to something for this to happen then where would the vapor go the chances of oceans drying up in our life times of the human race is nill if it happened the cause would have finished us long before have you any more stupid questions
392109
yes.  Hurricanes redistribute the heat of the planet.  The planet is trying to rebalance itself.
260369
No but it would affect existence on the planet! There is a delicate balance to be maintained and if polar ice caps melted, this balance would be tipped over.  You can certainly expect weird weather.
422733
yes it would affect the earth because it would disrupt our tides and all of our weather would either become very extreme or nonexistent also we wouldn't have a moon for any one else to visit and then we wouldn't be able to go to anywhere but the earth .
50509
The ice would melt and ocean levels would rise causing some flooding along most coastlines and possibly upto several miles inland.  As for the earth axis, the axis of the earth rotates and one complete rotation takes about 26,000 years.  This rotation will 'flip' the seasons at some point in the distant future (so Christmas will be in summer).  This axis rotation causes most shifts in the patterns of warm and cold, dry and wet climates.  Don't buy into the tree hugging hippie crap that SUV's cause polar ice to melt, the proof just isn't there!
421780
The big unknown in your question is what the weather would be like.\n\nKeep in mind that the amount of rainfall could still be the same on a worldwide basis.  Almost all of the water evaporated from the ocean falls as rain within about 100 miles of the coast.  \n\nYou know that in South America, rain forests are located far inland, even in the center of the contient.  So, it doesn't take evaporation from the ocean to sustain an extremely wet climate.\n\nPresumably, the ocean basins would be covered by forests.  They put a tremendous amount of water into the air through transpiration.  What would the climate be like at such a low elevation?  This would dramatically change the albedo of the earth; much more sunlight would be absorbed!  Overall, the world would be much hotter.\n\nYou would still have large freswater lakes on the continents, and presumably at some places in the ocean basins.\n\nHeck, I have a PhD in geology and I can't answer this question.  What would the climate be like?  Would the lower albedo cause a runaway greenhouse effect, or would the higher average temperature evaporate more water making more clouds to completely offset the increased albedo?\n\nTell your professor there isn't enough information about what the climate would be like.
1054298
No, they would be shallower, but only by a teeny bit. Although the sponge, when dried out, is largely hollow, it does have a finite volume. This volume displaces some of the ocean, so the level rises.\nTo test the theory, put some water in a basin, mark the level, gently put in a few dry sponges. Make sure they are fully submerged.\nIf the level goes up, this shows that the oceans would be shallower without sponges.\nIf the level goes down, you have discovered a material with negative volume; don't stop running until you get to the patent office.
364601
If that direction were opposite the direction of the \nearth's rotation, I think the answer is theoretically yes.\nIn reality there's not enough mass of people relative to the mass of the earth to have any effect.
106400
A 3 mile wide rock hitting the ocean could cause extreme waves to travel at 6000 km/h and as high as 5 km up in the air. Such waves would flood the entire Earth, leaving total destruction. \n\nIf it hits land, then a huge earthquake would be there and it would be like a wave on land, and maybe only a continent would see the destruction.  However, this will also cause dust to rise in the stratosphere and cover the entire Earth in complete darkness.\n\nAlso note that before the rock hits, as it enters our atmosphere at 40000 km/h, it will cause a shock wave so strong that possibly the entire Earth would be destroyed.  So if that's the case, it wouldn't really matter where it hits, because total destruction occurs before the rock hits the surface.
1011772
continents - yes\n\ncountries - no
119438
A wide variety of wierd things would happen.  For one temperatures would increase more and decrease to lower values on the sunlit and shaded sides of the world.  Ocean currents and weather patterns would change dramatically.  Winds would blow directly toward the equator in both the southern and northern hemispheres.  Large circular currents called gyres which exist in all ocean basins would dissapear.  The tides would also be much different because the earth's rotation strongly influences tidal characteristics.
1017741
Lots of things would change but I think these would be most interesting/impactful:\n\n- The sun would rise in the west and set in the east. As someone else noted, time zones would reverse. TV shows would now be at 8 Pacific, 5 Eastern...\n\n- You'd lose all satellite TV and communications, since these satellites are in geosynchronous orbit now and would no longer stay over the right spot on the earth\n\n- Not sure if GPS would actually still work or not. I don't think the system cares which satellite it finds, so you might be switching between them much more often but I think the system itself would still calculate position correctly.\n\n- Weather patterns would shift; hurricanes and tornados would now rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere. There would probably be some pretty drastic climate changes.\n\n- Software for guidance cruise missiles, rockets, anything that uses gyros & calculations instead of GPS for navigation would be way off and would need to be reprogrammed\n\n- It's not a given it would happen immediately, but in short order the magnetic field of earth would also flip, so all compasses would read backwards. (This has happened several times in earth's history and will probably happen again - doesn't depend on rotation reversing, but would probably be triggered by it.)\n\n- Contrary to popular belief, direction that water flushes down the toilet or circles down the drain would NOT change...
692139
Assuming that humans don't destroy the world...which is a pretty BIG assumption, I think maybe in a few thousand years the Earth's magnetic field may weaken to the point where it no longer deflects the harmful radiation from the sun and all life as we know it on this planet will cease to exist, and Earth will become very Mars-like...a very thin atmosphere and no surface water. But hey, that's just me.
308015
Short answer: nothing would happen.\n\nLonger answer:  Think of it like this.  The oceans make up 2/3rds of the surface area of the planet, approximately.  They are much, much deeper than tall buildings, trees, or even mountains.  Also think about water displacement- the volume of water that something displaces is equal to its own volume.\n\nRising sea levels are caused, mostly, by melting polar ice caps.  So how big are these ice caps and how much is melting?  The ice caps cover the Arctic (the size of a major continent) and most of Antarctica, which together is probably the size of two major continents.  Worst case scenario- most of it melts.  Let's be optimistic- 10%.  Can you really imagine the boats that we have adding up to 10% the volume of an entire continent, let alone two?  No, it's ridiculous.  A mountain or two, sure, plausible, but something the size of Texas?  No.  Absolutely not.
906851
why not get a pipe from the bottom of the ocean to space and pump water into space to save the sea level rising. a few boats aint gonna help
441802
Global warming can have millions of negative effects, one leading to the next. If we have lost total control of it, it would start to get really hot down here. You would pick up a nice tan, but the tan won't stop. Trees will die of the heat, and even shelters could be whithered, because the heat is so intense.\n\nA major effect could be the melting of the poles. This could lead to devastating effects. With all those fresh water running into the sea, the ocean would be much fuller, causing huge tsunamis, tidal waves, tornadoes, and much more. This could even bring about the next ice age!\n\nMore water would evaporate, which would cause much more intense rainy seasons and floods.\n\nGlobal warming is a bad thing, and should be cut out by all means!
333791
Probably not. I think the end will come from environmental destruction causing melting of the ice caps, then, when the balance of the planet is thrown off enough, the earth will change its axis of rotation ( as it has done several times already according to the geologic survey ). This will be devestating to all life on the planet and the earth will be reborn.