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What happens to most of the energy when earth surface absorbs light?
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Most of the light's energy gets converted into heat.
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What absorbs energy from the sun in the atmosphere?
Ozone, water vapor, carbon dioxide, clouds, dust, and other gases absorb energy in the atmosphere.
Is potential energy on the surface of earth is always zero?
That depends on what reference level you have chosen. If the (arbitrary) reference level you chose is Earth's surface, then anything on the Earth's surface has zero potential energy. If you choose some higher reference level, an object on Earth's surface has a negative potential energy. If you choose a lower reference level, an object on Earth's surface would have a positive potential energy.
How much solar energy is absorbed and how much is reflected from the earth's surface?
At the earth's surface about 51% of incoming solar radiation is absorbed, and 4% is reflected back into space.Incoming solar radiation: 100%Reflected by the atmosphere: 6% : Absorbed by the atmosphere: 16%Continuing incoming solar radiation: 78%Reflected by clouds: 20% : Absorbed by clouds: 3%Continuing incoming solar radiation: 55%Reflected by the earth's surface: 4% : Absorbed by the earth's surface (lands and oceans): 51%
What type of radiation does the earth emit?
Its the thermal energy that the Earth emits. Radiation is essentially another word for heat. There is also solar radiation which is simply the heat from the sun. The Earth actually emits far less thermal energy than what is taken in from by the sun and absorbed into the atmosphere. On the other hand there are planets like Jupiter whose surface temperature is mostly comprised of heat from thermal energy instead of solar radiation.
What is the potential energy of hydrogen balloon?
It depends on its weight and height from earth surface and the earth gravity.
What absorbs most of the energy that is radiated from the earth surface?
Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases absorb most of the energy that is radiated from Earth's surface.
The Earth's surface absorbs more radiant energy from the sun than the atmosphere?
yes the earths surface absorbs more radiant energy from the sun than the atmosphere GOOD LUCK :)
What absorbs most of energy that is radiated from earth surface?
Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases absorb most of the energy that is radiated from Earth's surface.
What prevents all of the sun energy from getting to earth surface?
Much of it is absorbed by the atmosphere. The ozone layer absorbs a lot of it.
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.
What happens to solar energy that is not absorbed by earth's surface?
Most of it is reflected back into space.
What happens to the solar energy that is not absorbed by Earth's surface?
Most of it is reflected back into space.
What happens to the solar energy that is absorbed by Earth's surface?
Most of it is reflected back into space.
What absorbs energy from the sun in the atmosphere?
Ozone, water vapor, carbon dioxide, clouds, dust, and other gases absorb energy in the atmosphere.
What absorbs heat leaving earth's surface?
Greenhouse gases.
What make it difficult for astronmoers to view the universe clearly from the surface?
earth's atmosphere, because it absorbs and distorts some of the energy received form space
What happens to the energy that is obsorbed by earths surface?
nothing, it stays stored up in the Earth and that's why there is lava in the core of the Earth.
