How does the sun affect all living things?

Answer 1

No, Nothing can live on the Sun without getting killed. It also has a mixture of gases so they could get gassed as well. The Sun is the biggest star in the solar system, but you don't have to be a genius to work that one out...

Just knowing there are humans who can ask this type of question gives me the shivers. But don't forget, the avg person is stupid so........

Btw, who ever wrote this the sun isn't a ball of fire :P its made mostley of helium and hydrogen and has small traces of other elements like: carbon, sulhur, iron, oxygen, calcium...

Answer 2

The sun is middle aged. Our star is in the middle of its life cycle, and if you use the link below, you can easily read a short post on what you can expect as the sun ages. It's worth the short jump to Wikipedia to do that. Really.

Answer 3

Yes, all living things depend on the sun for survival. The sun provides energy for the plants which the animals eat. After the animal eats the plants a Carnivore or Omnivore eats the animal. If there was no sun or sunlight on earth, no type of organism could survive. Also the harsh cold and lack of food would kill off all other bacteria and organisms.

Answer 4

No. The sun burns at 27 million degrees Fahrenheit...no human or man made object can withstand that amount of heat, as of yet. Even the surface of the sun is hot enough to vaporize any known substance.

Answer 5

In about 4 billion years or so, the Sun will start to run out of the hydrogen fuel that keeps the Sun working. Well, "run out" isn't entirely correct; what happens is that hydrogen is fused into helium in the Sun's core, producing heat. The hydrogen is the fuel; in this example, the helium is like the "ash" in the nuclear fireplace.

In 4 billion years, the Sun will still have plenty of hydrogen, but the helium "ashes" will have built up to the point that it is interfering with the hydrogen atoms getting close enough to fuse. The Sun will start to shrink, because it is the energy produced by the nuclear reaction that keeps the Sun from collapsing under the gravity of its own enormous mass.

The shrinkage, the compression, ALSO generates heat - as every Scuba diver knows - and the collapsing Sun will continue to get hotter and hotter from the heat generated by the compression. Eventually, the core of the Sun will become hot enough and dense enough that the helium "ash" in the Sun's core will begin fusing - into carbon! This generates a LOT more energy, and when the Sun begins fusing helium into carbon, the Sun will expand into a red giant star. We expect that the Sun will consume the planets Mercury and Venus; we're not sure if the Sun will expand enough to engulf the Earth. But no matter; the Sun will certainly expand enough to boil all the water on the Earth, and to sterilize any life on this planet.

So if there are still any humans, and if we are still "human" in 4 billion years, we'll need to have moved elsewhere - or to have moved the Earth out of harm's way.

Answer 6

Not until the sun begins it's final stages when it becomes a red giant will the earth become effected

Answer 7

There are many ways in which the sun can affect all living things. The primary consumers eat sun absorbing plants.

Answer 8

sunlight is needed for plants to grow but if there is no plants animals will die and eventually we'll die because of no food

Answer 9

it can burn your skin and cause skin cancer if you get burnt too much. but it is also helpful in some ways

Answer 10

The Sun is a star fusing elements to generate energy. It is not alive and therefore your question makes no sense.