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Some sunlight is absorbed or reflected by the atmosphere before it can reach the surfaces.
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∙ 9y agoThe actual is Clouds, gases and dust reflects 25% of the incoming sun light.
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What gases in the earth's atmosphere reflect heat?
None. No gases reflect heat.Heat from the Sun arrives as short-wave energy and passes right through the greenhouse gases and heats the earth.This heat is emitted back up as long-wave energy. Long-wave energy is blocked by greenhouse gases, which absorb it and do not let it pass into the upper atmosphere and beyond.These greenhouse gases include:water vapor, the most plentiful gas,carbon dioxide,methane,nitrous oxide,chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs),hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) andPerfluorocarbons (PFCs)Other minor gases might be included, as well.
How is heat energy transferred by earth atmosphere?
heat energy transferred by earths atmosphere by the sun
What energy sources drives the atmosphere and hydrosphere?
Energy from the Sun.
What source of energy drives the atmosphere and hydrosphere?
Energy from the Sun.
The fuel driving the atmosphere is?
solar energy
How does the atmoshpere reflect energy?
Some sunlight is absorbed or reflected by the atmosphere before it can reach the surface.
How is the energy from the sun reflected by the atmosphere?
The Suns rays reflect of the Earth, then off the outer shell of the atmosphere, temporarily trapping sunlight and heat.
What reflect energy from the sun in the atmosphere?
It uses something called the "greenhouse effect." Basically, "greenhouse gases," like carbon dioxide, are in the atmosphere. These gases trap and reflect the heat shining from the sun. They keep bouncing the sun's rays back and forth, which increases the temperature of the atmosphere.
What does a black objects do to light?
black object completely absorbe the incident energy and does not reflect any light because if energy incident on any other thing it reflect some portion in atmosphere that is why we can see the thing that it is in which colour but if energy absorbes by any object here total absorption no reflection
Why are days on Mercury hot and nights are cold?
Mercury has nearly no atmosphere. Without an atmosphere, Mercury cannot reflect sunlight or trap heat. This is the reason why days on Mercury are very hot and nights are very cold. In the daytime, the solar energy directly strikes the planet's surface because there is no atmosphere to reflect heat, making a sizzling temperature of 427 Celsius (800 Fahrenheit). At night, without an atmosphere to trap heat, the solar energy escapes quickly into space, resulting in a freezing temperature of -173 Celsius (-290 Fahrenheit).
Do planets reflect or radiate energy?
They reflect energy. I learned this the hard way. Losing a point on a test
Why are days on Mercury very hot and nights very cold?
Mercury has nearly no atmosphere. Without an atmosphere, Mercury cannot reflect sunlight or trap heat. This is the reason why days on Mercury are very hot and nights are very cold. In the daytime, the solar energy directly strikes the planet's surface because there is no atmosphere to reflect heat, making a sizzling temperature of 427 Celsius (800 Fahrenheit). At night, without an atmosphere to trap heat, the solar energy escapes quickly into space, resulting in a freezing temperature of -173 Celsius (-290 Fahrenheit).
What are greenhouse gases and how they are greenhouse gases?
Those gasses that allow the passage of shorter wavelength energy such as light but reflect or absorb longer wavelength energy such as heat. The main such gasses in our atmosphere are water vapour and carbon dioxide.
How can energy be transferred through the atmosphere?
Energy is transferred through the atmosphere by radiation.
How does Earths Atmosphere Gets Energy?
by the earth's energy being reflected to the atmosphere
What type of energy is transmitted through the atmosphere?
Through the atmosphere rather than by the atmosphere, then that would be electromagnetic energy.
What type of surface reflect heat?
light and smooth surfaces reflect heat energy
