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UVA and UVB rays cause the sun to burn your skin. When the skin is exposed to the sun for a period of time and without any sunscreen on, the ultraviolet light penetrates the skin, burning it.

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it can cause skin to feel leathery and to wrinkle it can also cause for you to develop skin cancer

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sun damage and skin cancer

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Why does a person's skin usually get darked during the summer?

Exposure to the sun causes the skin to produce more melanin pigment which temporarily give the skin a darker color.


Can you get sun burn in the shade?

No. The Sun's light and heat rays have to hit off your skin in order for it to react therefore with no sun hitting your skin it is impossible for it to burn.


When standing in the sunlight what physical process causes the heat a human feels on bare skin?

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What is the white stuff under sun burn?

If it's a bad sun burn than it can be puss, or just skin. Ever wonder why your skin feels hot when you have a sun burn? That's your lower skin layers still burning, it can last for days!


What can the sun do to you?

Ultraviolet light from the sun can cause skin cancer if you are exposed to enough of it for a sufficiently long time. If untreated, skin cancer can be fatal. Staring directly at the sun can cause permanent or temporary blindness, depending upon circumstances.


What organ is damaged when you get a sun burn?

skin


What are the types damage that can affect the skin?

sun burn skin cancer


What is sun burns?

Sun burn is a burn to living tissue such as skin produced by overexposure to ultraviolet, radiation, commonly from the sun's rays.


Can albino hippos get sun burn?

No they can't, their skin is too thick to burn


How does skin go red?

because when the sun hit's it it burn's and goes all red if you were talking about sun burn.


How does sun effect the human body?

well sun is healthy for your body. but to much sun is not because see the sun is hot and when you burn your self your skin turns red, buy the sun you turn red that's called a sun burn, but its healthy but its not great when you get skin cancer :( hope this helps