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Q: What happens to most of the solar energy that reaches earths atmosphere?
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What percentage of the solar energy the reaches the outer atmosphere is absorbed at the earths surface?

50%


What happens to solar energy as it enters earths atmosphere?

it gets absorbed by the ground


What happens when the earths atmosphere traps energy from the sun?

It cuases the green house effect


What happens when the earth's atmosphere traps energy from the sun?

The suns energy when it reaches the earth's atmosphere encounters earth's plasma and three things happens. Some of the energy is reflected , some is absorbed and the rest is transmitted to the earth.


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.


How does Earths Atmosphere Gets Energy?

by the earth's energy being reflected to the atmosphere


What happens to energy from the sun when it reaches the atmosphere and surfaces?

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 energy from the Sun when it reaches Earth's atmosphere and surfaces?

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 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.


When Earths surface is heated it radiates some of the energy back into the atmosphere as?

When Earths surface is heated it radiates some of the energy back into the atmosphere as "Infrared Radiation."


What percent of energy reaches outer atmosphere?

70


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.