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Light energy that is absorbed by Earth's surface is changed into what?
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∙ 6y ago
heat, unless it bounces off earth back into space
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∙ 13y ago
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What does the amount of energy in the atmosphere depend on?
the amount of energy absorbed by the sun and the amount of energy that escapes the earths atmosphere.
What is energy that is absorbed by the land and water is changed into?
Velium gas
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 do you call the energy from beneath the earths surface?
It is called geothermal energy.
What process moves energy from earths surface to high in the troposphere?
conduction
When the suns rays strike the earths surface energy is absorbed or reflected?
absorbed
What absorbed the most energy that is radiated from earths surface?
the greenhouse
When the Sun's rays strike earths surface energy is what?
Absorbed
What happens to the energy from the sun that is absorbed. by earths surface?
Energy from the sun that is absorbed by the Earth's surface is reflected back into the atmosphere or absorbed by land and water and transformed into heat.
What is the way the suns energy is absorbed by the earths surface and warms the earth?
the answer is conduction
What is the way the sun's energy is absorbed by the earths surface and warms the earth?
the answer is conduction
Most of the solar energy reaching planet Earth and its atmosphere is absorbed by what?
earths surface
What percentage of the solar energy the reaches the outer atmosphere is absorbed at the earths surface?
50%
What does the earths energy budget examine?
solar energy absorbed by the sun
What happens to the Suns energy when it reaches the earths surface?
What happens to Solar Energy is that some of it gets absorbed into air, land and water while the rest gets reflected back to space.
What happens to that energy from the sun that is absorbed by earth surface?
Energy from the sun that is absorbed by the Earth's surface is reflected back into the atmosphere or absorbed by land and water and transformed into heat.
Where is most of the sun's energy absorbed in water?
Most of the sun's energy is absorbed near the surface.
