Some is absorbed by the earths air water and soil. The remainder is reflected.
it goes into the inner core.
it does reach the earth in light energy.
As the sun's rays heat up the earth, the radiation hits the atmosphere. Then the radiation heads back to the sun.
Waves of heat and light, called radiation, travel to earth.
8 minutes.
About 8-1/3 minutes.
It will take 8 minutes for the light from the sun to reach Earth. The actual heat of the sun does not reach all the way out to Earth. The warmth on Earth comes from the conversion of light energy to heat energy.
It takes approximately 8 minutes for the Sun's light to reach Earth.
In order to get to Earth (through a vacuum) it must be converted into radiation. Note that some energy reaches Earth as the "solar wind - mostly charged particles. This is a very small percentage.
by solar energy
It feeds the plants which gos in the food cycle and gos to the animal's then to us people and food chain!
about 8 to 12 minutes