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The sun converts hydrogen to light energy. This energy must travel through space, where there are no particles. To go through space, the energy is transferred by electromagnetic waves. When these waves hit the Earth's surface, they are absorbed by the typeof material at the top (rock, soil, water). As the waves are absorbes, they release their energy into the material's particles. This causes the particles to vibrate faster, causeing heat.
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What is the intense heat beneath earths surface can be a source of?
radiation & gravity
How does visible light cause earths surface to become warmer?
Visible light is an insignificant portion of the solar radiation that warms the Earth. The sun's infrared radiation, also known as 'heat', is responsible for virtually all of it.
If clouds absorb only a small amount of solar radiation how is Earth's atmosphere heated?
From the surface. Solar radiation is absorbed by the surface and emitted at a longer wavelength, which is essentially heat.
What are eight characteristics on which the amount of energy that is absorbed by earths surface depends?
Color, texture, composition, volume, mass, state of matter, transparency, and specific heat of the material on which the solar radiation falls.
How is the earths energy tansferred between the earths surface and the atmosphere?
Heat transfer within the atmosphere occurs via all three modes of heat transfer:Conduction - as the air contacts existing heat sources. These might be surfaces that have been heated previously viaabsorptionof solar radiation or from chemical reactions Convection - as warm air mixes with cold air as air currents move the air around and as buoyancy effects cause warm air to rise and cooler air to sink. Radiation - much of the air is composed of heat absorbing molecules such as water vapor. Solar radiation is absorbed by these molecules, causing them to warm up.
What is the transfer of energy from the sun to earths surface?
Because of the heat and light
What heats earths atmosphere?
The sun heats the atmosphere. Solar radiation largely passes through the atmosphere and warms the surface of the earth. The earth then radiates heat up into the lower levels of the atmosphere where greenhouse gases warm. The warmed greenhouse gases then continue to radiate heat in all directions warming the atmosphere and again the earth's surface.
The earths surface transfers heat to the atmosphere primarily by?
the answer is radiation
What is the intense heat beneath earths surface can be a source of?
radiation & gravity
How does visible light cause earths surface to become warmer?
Visible light is an insignificant portion of the solar radiation that warms the Earth. The sun's infrared radiation, also known as 'heat', is responsible for virtually all of it.
What three processes transfer heat over earths surface?
Convection, radiation, and conduction
If clouds absorb only a small amount of solar radiation how is Earth's atmosphere heated?
From the surface. Solar radiation is absorbed by the surface and emitted at a longer wavelength, which is essentially heat.
What are eight characteristics on which the amount of energy that is absorbed by earths surface depends?
Color, texture, composition, volume, mass, state of matter, transparency, and specific heat of the material on which the solar radiation falls.
What is most of the energy that heats earths atmosphere?
Heat from the sun rising as infrared radiation from the surface of the earth.
Why is radiation of heat larger in a black surface than a white surface?
A black surface absorbs the heat radiation and a white surface reflects the heat radiation
How is the earths energy tansferred between the earths surface and the atmosphere?
Heat transfer within the atmosphere occurs via all three modes of heat transfer:Conduction - as the air contacts existing heat sources. These might be surfaces that have been heated previously viaabsorptionof solar radiation or from chemical reactions Convection - as warm air mixes with cold air as air currents move the air around and as buoyancy effects cause warm air to rise and cooler air to sink. Radiation - much of the air is composed of heat absorbing molecules such as water vapor. Solar radiation is absorbed by these molecules, causing them to warm up.
Why do solar hot water pannels have a Matt black surface?
So the radiation from the sun is absorbed by the black surface to heat the water in the pipes.
